For those who can’t get enough of our sometimes witty, sometimes prescient, sometimes just out-in-left-field writing there’s good news! Now you can spend the weekend reading more from our membership. Here’s what they’ve been up to:

Australia
Natalie Sambhi: Security Scholar: Two new round-ups on Indonesian defense and intelligence news stories

Canada
James Bridger: Foreign Policy: Rise and Fall of a Pirate King

Germany
Felix Seidlers: Seidlers Sicherheispolitik: Germany Needs a Permanent Naval Presence in the Indian Ocean

Poland
Przemyslaw Krajewski: Viribus Unitis: Corvettes and Steadfast Jazz

U.S.
LT Will Spears, USN: JO Rules: Talk Like a Spartan
CDR Chuck Hill, USCG: Chuck Hill’s CG Blog: Norway Buying New SAR Helos
LT Scott Cheney-Peters, USNR: War on the Rocks: How to Not Go to War with China
William Yale: The Diplomat: Air Sea Battle: A Dangerous Unaffordable Threat
Dave Majumdar: USNI News: SR-72 is Only a Plane on Paper
ADM John Harvey (Ret.) and Bryan McGrath: Panel Discussion: Inaugural event at Hudson Institute’s Center for American Seapower
ADM James Stavridis (Ret.): Foreign Policy: Pirate Droves
Raymond Pritchet: Information Dissemination: American Decline
CDR Chris Rawley, USNR: NavalDrones: RAND on USVs
Joseph Hammond: Today’s Zaman: Energy Wars on the Caspain Basin

If you’re a member and don’t see your outside efforts above, be sure to email me at director@cimsec.org.

If you’re not a member (and you can check here) and would like to be you can fill out the short, simple, free memberhip application, which gives you access to all sorts of great things, like digital tote bags.