Announcements and Updates
Distributed Lethality Week Concludes on CIMSEC by Dmitry Filipoff
Call for Articles: Alternative Naval Force Structures Topic Week by Dmitry Filipoff
August Recap by Dmitry Filipoff
CIMSEC and Atlantic Council Launch Fiction Contest on Autonomy and Future War by August Cole and Sally DeBoer
CIMSEC UK Meet-Up — September 28 by Scott Cheney-Peters
Members’ Roundup
Members’ Roundup: August 2016 by Sam Cohen
Naval Affairs
Which Player Are You? Warfare Specialization in Distributed Lethality by Jon Hill
After Distributed Lethality: Unmanned Netted Lethality by Javier Gonzalez
Deglobalization Will Change the Mission of Naval Forces by T.X. Hammes
Navy Information Warfare — What is it? by Richard Mosier
Is Sea Sheperd a Navy? A CIMSEC Debate by Chris Rawley, Claude Berube, and Ryan Mewett
Lessons and Activities of the Maritime Expeditionary Operations Conference 2016 by Clarissa Butler
Management and Process Improvement: The Navy of the 1990’s and Today by Jason Chuma
Rotary Wing Aviation in the Royal Canadian Navy by Matthew Gamble
The Mobile Riverine Force as an Example for Riverine Ops in the 21st Century by Rick Chersicla
crossposted from Small Wars Journal
Legitimacy at Sea: Is Sea Shepherd a Navy or Piracy? by Joshua Tallis
Asia-Pacific
Riding a New Wave of Professionalization and Militarization: Sansha City’s Maritime Militia by Conor M. Kennedy and Andrew S. Erickson
Military Activities on the Continental Shelf by James Kraska
crossposted from Lawfare
China’s Reaction to the Arbitration Ruling Will Lead it Into Battles it Won’t Win by Mark Rosen
Part 1
Part 2
Reinforcing China’s Malacca Dilemma by Vidya Sagar Reddy
Potential Chinese Anti-Ship Capabilities between the First and Second Island Chains by Jon Solomon
crossposted from Information Dissemination
Middle East
The Israeli Navy in Context by Guido Weiss
South America
Sea Shepherd in Latin America by W. Alejandro Sanchez
General National Security
The Military Mind in the Age of Innovation by Brad DeWees
crossposted from The Bridge
21st Century Information Warfare and the Third Offset Strategy by James R. McGrath
crossposted from Joint Forces Quarterly
Featured Image: BALTIMORE (Oct. 17, 2016) The guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) passes national historic site Fort McHenry as she departs Maryland Fleet Week and Air Show Baltimore (MDFWASB). MDFWASB provides the people and media of the greater Maryland/Baltimore area an opportunity to interact with Sailors and Marines, as well as see, firsthand, the latest capabilities of today’s maritime services. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Justin R. Pacheco/Released)