2016

January Announcements January’s CIMSEC Topic Week: The Littoral Arena by Dmitry Filipoff Coming Soon: Information Dissemination’s Jon Solomon Crossposting Series by Sally DeBoer Invite – Jan 20 – CIMSEC’s January DC Meet-up with Natalie Sambhi by Scott Cheney Peters Events Events of Interest Feb. 1-Feb. 5 by Emil Maine Members’ Round Up December Member Round Up … Continue reading 2016

January 2016 Members’ Round-Up Part One

Welcome to part one of the January 2016 members’ round-up! Over the past month CIMSEC members have examined several international maritime security issues, including future development programs for the U.S. Navy, Japanese naval strategy in the Asia-Pacific, North Korea’s nuclear weapons test, legal discussions over the U.S. South China Sea Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOP) … Continue reading January 2016 Members’ Round-Up Part One

Book Review: Syren’s Song

By Matt Hipple In a splintering nation, isolated from the world by a terrorist organization’s terrifying new EMP technology, Syren’s Song stirs up a cocktail of classic Tom Clancy plot mix, shaken at a Clive Cussler speed, with a sprig of Dale Brown for flair. The author, Claude Berube, only rarely envokes his  author’s prerogative for the … Continue reading Book Review: Syren’s Song

President Charles Stewart and the Making of American Naval Power

Alternate History Topic Week By Claude Berube Having just completed his latest assignment as Commodore of the Home Squadron, Charles Stewart had returned to his intermittent business interests that had afforded opportunities to officers without orders.  He had seen the flyers, his stately image emblazoned above the appeals for him to run for president of … Continue reading President Charles Stewart and the Making of American Naval Power