“Despite the remarkable developments in military technology, despite the weapons and machines which have vastly expanded our ...

Specialization debates are hardly new to the U.S. Navy or the Surface Warfare Officer (SWO) community. Rapid technological change over the past two centuries repeatedly propelled demands for ...

The time was a century ago for the SWO officer corps to accept that the future had arrived, and it is past high time for them ...

The debate over whether Surface Warfare Officers (SWOs) should be “generalists” or “specialists” is an old and vigorous one. 1 For more than 125 years, SWOs have followed a generalist career path. 2 ...

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For the last two weeks, CIMSEC featured short stories submitted in response to our Call for Fiction. Authors explored a wide variety of scenarios and dilemmas. From unmanned warship attacks to ...

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 ...