Tag: Maritime Security

  • Korean General in embezzling row

    Bad news for Korean Navy. Navy general arrested on embezzlement charge By Lee Han-soo The Korean Navy’s Cheonghae Unit, which is part of the Combined Task Force 151 that counters […]

  • NATO joins Med migrant hunt

    Another military operation for the Med. Nato to join EU warships in Libya migrant operation By ANDREW RETTMAN Nato warships and, potentially, drones are to help the EU control migrant […]

  • Southern waters not new Somalia

    Abu Sayyaf Group kidnapping crews. Southern waters ‘not a new Somalia’ The Philippines denied yesterday that piracy in its waters bordering Indonesia and Malaysia had reached Somalian levels, after a […]

  • India fishes for peace

    Hopes tit for tat arrests will become thing of the past. India fishes for peace in Pakistani waters By Pradip R Sagar NEW DELHI:  Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s coastal policy is […]

  • Fresh kidnaps off Malaysia

    Malaysian police confirm unidentified gunmen seized Indonesians from boat off eastern state Malaysia: 3 Indonesians kidnapped off east Sabah By P Prem Kumar Police confirmed Sunday that three Indonesian nationals […]

  • US port security fears

    Customs and Border Protection tasked with checking 100% of cargoes. Congress talks port security and smuggled nukes By Mark Rockwell Lawmakers said an undetected radiological weapon smuggled into a U.S. port inside […]

  • Libya okays oil exports

    Oil exports to begin. Libya to Resume Oil Exports From Biggest Ports Within a Week By Hatem Mohareb Libya will resume crude exports from two of its biggest oil ports […]

  • More WAF piracy

    Nigerian waters still present threat. Two Pirate Attacks Thwarted off West Africa This past week, two serious piracy attacks off West Africa were thwarted, keeping two crews out of the hands […]

  • China’s maritime militia

    How China uses its “bad cops” to do its dirty work. Countering China’s Third Sea Force: Unmask Maritime Militia before They’re Used Again By Andrew S. EricksonConor M. Kennedy As the […]

  • Sulu Sea patrols analysis

    Will the patrols actually help? Trilateral Maritime Patrols in the Sulu Sea: Asymmetry in Need, Capability and Political Will By Zachary Abuza, Ph.D. A spate of shipjackings and kidnapping-for-ransoms has […]