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U.S. Naval Strategy and National Security: The Evolution of American Maritime Power, by Sebastian Bruns. London: Routledge, 2018. 270 pages. $155. The past quarter century has not been a happy [...]

Overnight on February 26-27, 2014, Russian forces invaded the Ukrainian territory of Crimea. Twenty-eight days later they had completed the first forced transfer of territory to take place in Europe [...]

The Decline of European Naval Forces: Challenges to Sea Power in an Age of Fiscal Austerity and Political Uncertainty, by Jeremy Stohs. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2018. 290 pages. [...]

Geography gives strategy its context. Secure from land invasion, Great Britain and later the United States employed a distinctive form of sea power to defeat their adversaries. Both used their [...]

Wang Yilin, chairman of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), reportedly told an audience at CNOOC's headquarters in Beijing in May that large-scale deepwater rigs are 'our mobile national [...]

Kraska, James. Maritime Power and the Law of the Sea. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011. 464pp. $95'In the unrelenting struggle of peoples,' the historian Pete Padfield wrote, 'those ascendant [...]

The Free Sea: The American Fight for Freedom of Navigation, by James Kraska and Raul Pedrozo. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2018. 416 pages. $39.95. For most of its 235 [...]

The increasing number of pirate attacks in and around Somali waters prompted the United Nations Security Council to approve Resolutions 1816. The resolution permits mandated countries to enter Somali waters to counter terrorism and the impact of this move will be felt during the initial six month period.

On 12 October 2000, two men from an organization aligned with al-Qa'ida loaded a rigid raider (a small boat with glass-reinforced-plastic hull) with explosives and drove it into the side [...]

The Sea Tigers, the naval wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, present a major challenge for the counterinsurgency authorities. The tactics and technology currently used by this Sri Lankan rebel group, which is the most successful non-state navy in the world, are discussed, and the implications of maritime insurgency are evaluated.

Fears of global maritime terrorism are increasing but practical difficulties and an absence of required skills on the part of the potential terrorists make such a threat remote. Also the largely unregulated waters of the world are a haven for transporting terrorists and their arms and it is unlikely that they would want to destroy their maritime highway by indulging in violent activity.

Strachan, Hew, and Sibylle Scheipers, eds. The Changing Character of War. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011. 564pp. $110 Academic strategists have been agonizing over whether war is changing its [...]

Kleinen, John, and Manon Osseweijer, eds. Pirates, Ports, and Coasts in Asia: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. Singapore and Leiden: ISEAS Press and International Institute for Asian Studies, 2010. 312pp. $74 [...]

Struett, Michael J., Jon D. Carlson, and Mark T. Nance, eds. Maritime Piracy and the Construction of Global Governance. New York: Routledge, 2013. 226pp. $29 Piracy presents an extraordinary set [...]

Berube, Claude, and Patrick Cullen, eds. Maritime Private Security: Market Responses to Piracy, Terrorism and Waterborne Security Risks in the 21st Century. New York: Routledge, 2012. 272pp. $135 In April [...]

Cann, John P. Brown Waters of Africa: Portuguese Riverine Warfare, 1961-1974. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Hailer, 2007. 248pp. $29.99 Counterinsurgency warfare is what used to be called 'colonial warfare.' Although the [...]

The ports of UK and US need more security intelligence in order to maintain safety due to their extreme vulnerability. The new legislation in the US has eroded possible advantages for the terrorists in carrying out major port attacks.