Category Archives: New Initiatives
April Analysis Week
The votes are in and the topic for our April Analysis Week will be ”Alternatives to the DDG Flight III” (full results below). Please help make this week a success and consider jotting down and submitting a few thoughts on the possibilities – in this case for the U.S. Navy – whether it be alternative platforms, technologies, organizations, [...]
Constructive Disruption: The Defense Entrepreneurs Forum
One year ago today, an oft repeated, maligned and admired phrase kicked off a broad dialogue, bringing together a growing, widespread, and once-disparate community of defense innovators. Put simply, the idea of Disruptive Thinking was a call to question the status quo, to leverage existing innovative civilian institutions and to find crossover applications for use [...]
Read MoreApril Analysis
We here at CIMSEC like on occasion to offer our members and readers a topic to focus on for a week or so as a challenge to tease out nuances and new insights. In the past we’ve delved into such subjects as 3D printing and sea-based nations. In April we’ll do so again, and these [...]
Read MoreInnovation and Lessons Learned
There have been some interesting posts in the past week or so on spurring naval innovation that are worth the time to read. An article we cross-posted Wednesday, by LCDR Jason Schwarzkopf, dealt with fostering broad, collaborative discussion on tactical and practical naval matters and it received a well-reasoned response from CDR Salamander at his [...]
Read MoreGen Y and the Barriers to Professional Blogging
Where is the one-stop shop for all things tactical in the United States Navy? Is it held within the hallowed halls of the Navy Warfare Development Command? NWDC aggregates lessons learned, fuses experience with doctrine, models and simulates how we fight (and how we can fight better), innovates to provide warfighters with the latest technical [...]
Essays and Etcetera
First off, we here at CIMSEC have declared the month of March to be Membership March. As such, the aim of Membership March shall be to motivate members who have not previously posted in our NextWar blog to put fingers to keyboard and type something up. We hope to bring you, our readers and members, new, [...]
Read MoreMFP 9: Final Predictions For The Future
Any final predictions? This is the ninth and final regular post in our Maritime Futures Project. For more information on the contributors, click here. Note: The opinions and views expressed in these posts are those of the authors alone and are presented in their personal capacity. They do not necessarily represent the views of their parent institution U.S. Department of [...]
MFP 8: The Future of Small-Nation Maritime Forces
What advice would you give to a smaller nation on the maritime investments it should pursue, and why? This is the eighth in our series of posts from our Maritime Futures Project. For more information on the contributors, click here. Note: The opinions and views expressed in these posts are those of the authors alone and are presented in [...]
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