For the last two weeks, CIMSEC featured short stories submitted in response to our Call for Fiction. Authors explored a wide ...

All the same, the Marines relearned old rules of engagement as well as hostile act and hostile intent. As the Marines began ...

Detlev Ganzhorn, grandfather of seven and a 30-year Navy veteran, handed the latest addition to his family to his son-in-law ...

The ocean was calm off the coast of Virginia as Jake settled into his captain’s chair on the bridge wing of his Navy ...

The bridge of the offshore patrol vessel Frosch smelled of diesel and wet steel — the residue of a storm that had just lashed ...

Literal: “let it burn” (anna = “give/let,” palaa = “burns”). Idiomatic sense: “go for it,” “bring it on,” “hit it,” “keep it ...

Mara sipped coffee gone bitter in the pot and watched the locks cycle. The Canal had two lanes carved into the isthmus by men ...

“Colonel, you are part of the Henry Protocol now. You’re not going home, not until this is done. We have a duty, you and I.

Three silhouettes form a triangle—Miguel Diaz to the northwest, Texel to the south, the French frigate to the east, almost ...

On the Bridge of the Primary Control Ship, Gator was one of several officers scanning the beach for any sign of enemy ...

Walker interviews U.S. Coast Guard Commander Steven Hulse about his Proceedings article, “Bases on the Aleutians Islands Would Project Power Across the Pacific.” Hulse discusses his own experience ...

Commander Dave Anderson stared into the retina scanner on the bulkhead outside SUPPLOT. He heard the hissing of a basilisk as the air pressure changed in the space between the two doors to the ship’s ...