shipping containers

Megaships Mean Mega Changes

As ever-larger ships carry more goods, the risks to and stresses on the international system grow.

April 2025
An unmanned surface vessel, the USCGC Charles Moulthrope (WPC-1141), the dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Amelia Earhart (T-AKE-6), and the guided-missile destroyer USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) transit the Strait of Hormuz in August 2023.

What Is UNCLOS?

Maritime claims the world over are governed by a treaty too often undermined by signatories (and defended by a non-party).

Lieutenant Commander James Halsell, U.S. Navy
February 2025
U.S. Coast Guard

The Mona Passage

A challenging sea lane used by human traffickers and drug smugglers.

January 2025
Container ship

Marine Insurance

Marine insurance quietly underpins the complex web of global supply chains, yet its role as an essential component of the global economy often goes unnoticed.

Joe Greco
December 2024
The bow sonar array for a Seawolf-class nuclear-powered attack submarine.

Sonar 101

Sonar is a key tool for submarines, surface ships, and antisubmarine warfare–capable aircraft.

Lieutenant Commander Jim Halsell, U.S. Navy
November 2024
Lieutenant Claire Thatcher, an aviator from the Merlins of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 3, flies her MH-60S Seahawk/Knighthawk over the Grand Canyon in April 2024.

Fleet Replacement Squadron

Sometimes known as a “RAG”—readiness air group—the FRS is responsible for training pilots and aircrew in their specific aircraft after flight training and before joining the fleet.

June 2024
Fincantieri Marinette Marine

Future Frigate Still in the Future

The future Constellation (FFG-62), first of the Navy’s new frigate class, celebrated its keel-laying in a formal ceremony on 12 April 2024. That’s the good news.

Brian O’Rourke
June 2024