United States Coast Guard
Maritime Cyber Incidents Test Coast Guard Cyber Preparedness
The Coast Guard and the FBI are investigating multiple suspected cyberattacks on oil tankers that have disrupted trade routes throughout the Atlantic Ocean. On August 7, an oil tanker bound for the United...
Policy Briefs
America’s Military Plans Depend on Infrastructure It Doesn’t Secure
Military power is meaningless if it cannot move. Every American war plan, from deterring aggression in Europe to prevailing in the Indo-Pacific, depends on our ability to maneuver people,...
Op-eds
Findings of the Commission on Cyber Force Generation
Media Calls
Data Centers, Telecommunications Networks, and Space-Based Systems
Modernizing DHS’s SRMA Role for the Communications and IT Sectors
Legislative Testimonies
Readout of meetings with senior defense officials in Taiwan, Japan
Media Calls
Trump could be missing the opportunity to rebuild the Navy efficiently and quickly
On Friday the White House released its new Maritime Access Plan, laying out a comprehensive strategy for addressing shortfalls in the maritime-industrial base. The plan highlights a number of innovative...
Op-eds
US seizes more tankers, courts oil companies as post-Maduro Venezuela takes shape
In the week since Washington arrested former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, the outlines of a post-Maduro Venezuela have begun to take shape. Interim Venezuelan President Delcy Rodríguez, Defense...
Op-eds
U.S. Seizes Russian-Flagged Tanker Carrying Venezuelan Oil After Lengthy Pursuit
Tanker Boarded by U.S. Forces: The United States seized the Russian-flagged Bella 1 oil tanker on January 7 after a two-week pursuit across the Atlantic Ocean triggered by its violation...
Flash Briefs
U.S. Blockades Sanctioned Oil Tankers in Venezuela. Iran Deserves the Same Treatment
The waters off the shores of President Nicolas Maduro’s Bolivarian Republic are getting choppy for the dictator. After the U.S. Coast Guard seized the Skipper, a Venezuelan supertanker, on December 10,...
Policy Briefs
U.S. Seizes ‘Dark Fleet’ Supertanker With History of Oil Smuggling Off Venezuelan Coast
Latest Developments Vessel Involved in Illicit Oil Shipping: President Donald Trump announced on December 10 that the United States had seized a “very large” oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela....
Flash Briefs
Maritime Protection of Taiwan’s Energy Vulnerability
Memos
Chinese Coercion of Taiwan’s Energy Lifelines: A Contest Taiwan and the West Can’t Afford to Lose
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Memos
Countering China, Washington and Hanoi Sign Preliminary Trade Agreement
Fifty years after the last American forces left Saigon, the United States is expanding its ties — economic and military — with Vietnam. On July 2, President Donald Trump announced that the United States...
Policy Briefs
Deterrence Amid Rising Tensions
Preventing CCP Aggression on Taiwan
Legislative Testimonies
Bolstering Defense Ties, Vietnam Reportedly Agrees to Purchase American F-16s
Almost exactly 50 years after the evacuation of Saigon, American air power has returned to Vietnam. On April 22, 19FortyFive, a defense news outlet, reported that Vietnam had reached an agreement with...
Policy Briefs
Military Mobility Depends on Secure Critical Infrastructure
Monographs
CSC 2.0 Report on Military Mobility
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Media Calls
Crossroads of Competition
China in Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands