– CIMSEC – Last week CIMSEC featured a dozen short stories submitted in response to our call for articles. Authors used fiction to explore national security topics and share engrossing narratives. From expansive Pacific conflicts to individuals making a decisive difference, these stories explored the technological, exhibited the unconventional, and envisioned the unthinkable.
Author Archives: Naval Open Source Intelligence (NOSI)
Operation Tripolitan
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
USS Ross Tailed By Russian Corvette in Black Sea
– USNI News – Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG-71) arrived in Constanta, Romania, Monday morning, after entering the Black Sea on Friday while being tailed by a Russian corvette.
Carrier USS Abraham Lincoln Leaves Middle East After 220 Days, Truman in Red Sea
– USNI News – The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is now in the Indian Ocean after a seven-month stint in the Middle East in parallel with the U.S. maximum pressure campaign targeting Iran.
Russian Surveillance Ship Operating in ‘Unsafe’ Manner off East Coast
– USNI News – Russian surveillance ship Viktor Leonov has been operating unsafely off the coast of Georgia and South Carolina in the vicinity of U.S. naval bases, according to a U.S. Coast Guard safety bulletin issued on Sunday.
The Transformation of the Maritime Patrol “Aircraft” Enterprise: The Perspective of Rear Admiral Peter Garvin
– Second Line of Defense – An interview with Rear Admiral Pete Garvin in his office in Norfolk Virginia to discuss the way ahead with the US Navy’s Patrol and Reconnaissance Force (MPRF).
Plum Blossom
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
China mass-produces special mission aircraft
– Global Times – China is mass-producing special mission aircraft, including anti-submarine aircraft, early warning aircraft, surveillance aircraft and electronic warfare aircraft, a genre of warplanes that Chinese experts said on Sunday will help create a full information system that allows the Chinese military to recognize every hostile movement and even sabotage enemy communications.
Blue Death
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
Egypt’s Soviet-Era, Chinese-Made, American-Upgraded Subs Can Still Fire Harpoon Missiles
– War Zone – The Egyptian Navy is only one of two remaining operators of the type anywhere in the world and its examples have a unique and convoluted history.
Scratch One Updown
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
World’s largest nuclear icebreaker starts sea trials
– Barents Observer – Painted in the Russia’s flag’s tricolor, the new «Arktika» sailed out to the Gulf of Finland on Thursday for a two-days test voyage.
Shatner
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
Navy RQ-4A Surveillance Drone Suffers Major Damage in Middle East
– USNI News – A Navy surveillance drone suffered major damage during a takeoff attempt while operating in the Middle East.
Screaming Justice
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
Chinese navy trains top guns to command expanding aircraft carrier fleet
– South China Morning Post – The Chinese navy is training fighter pilots experienced in carrier-borne operations to command and manage its warships as it seeks to expand its global naval power.
At the Moral Level
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
Trouble-hit aircraft carrier catches fire in Murmansk
– Barents Observer – The fire on “Admiral Kuznetsov” at yard No. 35 started during welding work in one of the engine rooms. The fire is not under control.
Lifeblood
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
Adm. Davidson, Indo-Pacific commander: ‘We’re not asking people to choose between us and China’
– Defense News – Adm. Philip Davidson, the head of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, spoke to Defense News earlier this month in an exclusive interview during the Reagan National Defense Forum about China’s tactics and the role of the United States in supporting regional allies.
Dreams, Nightmares, and Talking Tigers
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
Acting SECNAV Modly Puts a Ten-Year Clock on Reaching 355 Ship Navy
– USNI News – Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly has made a bold call: the Navy should reach a fleet of 355 ships – both manned and unmanned – within a decade.
Congress slows the US Navy’s roll toward a robot-ship future
– Defense News – The U.S. Navy’s newfound zeal for unmanned surface vessels has been met by skepticism in Congress.
No Decision
– CIMSEC – A fictional short story from CIMSEC’s Fiction Week exploring national security topics through fiction.
No These Aren’t Starships In Space Dock, They Are Nuclear Submarines Under Construction
– War Zone – Nuclear submarines have many parallels to fictional starships, but in this case, these super high-tech vessels are made to dive down, not fly up.
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