Hunter Stires
@hunterstires.bsky.social
History, Strategy, Seapower, Statecraft. Privileged to serve as the Maritime Strategist to SECNAV 78. Personal Account. Be curious; when you can, be kind.
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Maritime Statecraft and its Future | Center for International Maritime Security
By Steve Brock and Hunter Stires With shipping and shipbuilding receiving high-level political and diplomatic attention across two administrations after decades of neglect, the United States has the c...
cimsec.org
I’m pleased to share my latest article, coauthored with @SteveVBrock in @CIMSEC, laying out the Maritime Statecraft strategy we designed and have been driving forward since 2022 under the leadership of Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro. 1/4
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cimsec.org/maritime-sta...
I’m pleased to share my latest article, “Don’t Give Up the Shipyards,” out now in @defenseone.bsky.social. Grateful to @navybook.bsky.social for bringing this work forward.
www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/1...
Don’t give up the shipyards
Trump’s first shipbuilding deal must not derail America’s bipartisan strategy to revive the foundations of its seapower.
www.defenseone.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I’m pleased to share my latest article, “Don’t Give Up the Shipyards,” out now in @defenseone.bsky.social. Grateful to @navybook.bsky.social for bringing this work forward.
www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.defenseone.com/ideas/2025/1...
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A comprehensive strategy for maritime statecraft.
This is the strategy pursued by the prior SECNAV. For the first time, the authors offer an open discussion on its logic and path forward in @cimsec.bsky.social, authored by @hunterstires.bsky.social and Steve Brock:
cimsec.org/maritime-sta...
This is the strategy pursued by the prior SECNAV. For the first time, the authors offer an open discussion on its logic and path forward in @cimsec.bsky.social, authored by @hunterstires.bsky.social and Steve Brock:
cimsec.org/maritime-sta...
October 23, 2025 at 6:20 AM
A comprehensive strategy for maritime statecraft.
This is the strategy pursued by the prior SECNAV. For the first time, the authors offer an open discussion on its logic and path forward in @cimsec.bsky.social, authored by @hunterstires.bsky.social and Steve Brock:
cimsec.org/maritime-sta...
This is the strategy pursued by the prior SECNAV. For the first time, the authors offer an open discussion on its logic and path forward in @cimsec.bsky.social, authored by @hunterstires.bsky.social and Steve Brock:
cimsec.org/maritime-sta...
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NEW: The Kremlin is attempting to use all available informational avenues to convince the US, Europe, and Ukraine to acquiesce to the Kremlin’s demands by convincing them that a Russian victory in Ukraine is certain when it is anything but.
More in tonight's assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar102025
More in tonight's assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar102025
October 21, 2025 at 3:37 AM
NEW: The Kremlin is attempting to use all available informational avenues to convince the US, Europe, and Ukraine to acquiesce to the Kremlin’s demands by convincing them that a Russian victory in Ukraine is certain when it is anything but.
More in tonight's assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar102025
More in tonight's assessment: isw.pub/UkrWar102025
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My latest for the @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social.
BLUF: Peninsular stability is linked directly to Taiwan Strait stability. Military planners should approach the simultaneous threats of the #PRC and #DPRK with this fact in mind. #WriteFightWin
www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...
BLUF: Peninsular stability is linked directly to Taiwan Strait stability. Military planners should approach the simultaneous threats of the #PRC and #DPRK with this fact in mind. #WriteFightWin
www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...
South Korea is the ideal anchor for the first island chain
Discussion of the first island chain largely overlooks South Korea, an ideal "anchor" that could prove decisive in a US-China conflict involving Taiwan.
www.atlanticcouncil.org
July 10, 2025 at 10:15 PM
My latest for the @atlanticcouncil.bsky.social.
BLUF: Peninsular stability is linked directly to Taiwan Strait stability. Military planners should approach the simultaneous threats of the #PRC and #DPRK with this fact in mind. #WriteFightWin
www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...
BLUF: Peninsular stability is linked directly to Taiwan Strait stability. Military planners should approach the simultaneous threats of the #PRC and #DPRK with this fact in mind. #WriteFightWin
www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-res...
I’m pleased to share my latest article, coauthored with @SteveVBrock in @CIMSEC, laying out the Maritime Statecraft strategy we designed and have been driving forward since 2022 under the leadership of Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro. 1/4
cimsec.org/maritime-sta...
cimsec.org/maritime-sta...
Maritime Statecraft and its Future | Center for International Maritime Security
By Steve Brock and Hunter Stires With shipping and shipbuilding receiving high-level political and diplomatic attention across two administrations after decades of neglect, the United States has the c...
cimsec.org
October 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
I’m pleased to share my latest article, coauthored with @SteveVBrock in @CIMSEC, laying out the Maritime Statecraft strategy we designed and have been driving forward since 2022 under the leadership of Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro. 1/4
cimsec.org/maritime-sta...
cimsec.org/maritime-sta...
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Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued.
Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially.
Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.
Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially.
Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.
September 22, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Serious scholars have examined what happens when we change the number of H1-B visas issued.
Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially.
Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.
Cities that get more H1-B immigrants subsequently see the wages of natives *rise* substantially.
Skilled immigrants bring new ideas, fill labor shortages and make us all more productive.
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Combat time adjacent; I find it weird that their time in combat has led them to believe: vaccines = bad, everyone having guns makes you safer and religion in govt is what good societies need
I just can’t imagine myself seeing Somalis beg for polio vaccines and thinking “man they are lucky”
I just can’t imagine myself seeing Somalis beg for polio vaccines and thinking “man they are lucky”
September 22, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Combat time adjacent; I find it weird that their time in combat has led them to believe: vaccines = bad, everyone having guns makes you safer and religion in govt is what good societies need
I just can’t imagine myself seeing Somalis beg for polio vaccines and thinking “man they are lucky”
I just can’t imagine myself seeing Somalis beg for polio vaccines and thinking “man they are lucky”
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Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
August 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
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To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”
August 20, 2025 at 11:49 AM
To my 10th grade English teacher, who said, “Make the conclusion count.”
Call me a Luddite but this piece captures how I feel about AI‘s threat to writing. Writing is how humans organize thought to exercise reason, which is at the core of philosophy and strategy. Outsourcing that function to an imitative machine is a mistake.
engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-war...
engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-war...
A warning to the young: just say no to AI
The substitution of Large Language Models for genuine thinking is a generational threat. At stake is no less than the life of the mind.
engelsbergideas.com
July 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Call me a Luddite but this piece captures how I feel about AI‘s threat to writing. Writing is how humans organize thought to exercise reason, which is at the core of philosophy and strategy. Outsourcing that function to an imitative machine is a mistake.
engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-war...
engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-war...
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When this scene was shot, Madeleine Lebeau, an actual French refugee who made it to the US, is singing the anthem of a nation that may never again exist.
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Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’
Casablanca is widely remembered as one of the greatest films of all time, coming in at #2 on the AFI’s top 100 list and similarly regarded by many other critics. You can quibble with its exac…
seveninchesofyourtime.com
July 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
When this scene was shot, Madeleine Lebeau, an actual French refugee who made it to the US, is singing the anthem of a nation that may never again exist.
seveninchesofyourtime.com/cinemas-grea...
seveninchesofyourtime.com/cinemas-grea...
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I think a lot about how when Casablanca was filmed, nobody knew who would win WW2.
July 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
I think a lot about how when Casablanca was filmed, nobody knew who would win WW2.
Today I complete my term as the Maritime Strategist to the Secretary of the Navy.
I am profoundly grateful to Steve Brock and Carlos Del Toro for their intellectual generosity in inviting me to join them in the work of charting the course for the Department of the Navy. 1/6
I am profoundly grateful to Steve Brock and Carlos Del Toro for their intellectual generosity in inviting me to join them in the work of charting the course for the Department of the Navy. 1/6
June 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Today I complete my term as the Maritime Strategist to the Secretary of the Navy.
I am profoundly grateful to Steve Brock and Carlos Del Toro for their intellectual generosity in inviting me to join them in the work of charting the course for the Department of the Navy. 1/6
I am profoundly grateful to Steve Brock and Carlos Del Toro for their intellectual generosity in inviting me to join them in the work of charting the course for the Department of the Navy. 1/6
Proud to be recognized by Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro alongside my boss, Steve Brock, for our work as the principal architects of Maritime Statecraft and its underlying strategy.
January 20, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Proud to be recognized by Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro alongside my boss, Steve Brock, for our work as the principal architects of Maritime Statecraft and its underlying strategy.
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The PRC telegraphs its punches.
Sources close to the Japanese government assess that the PLAN and CCG likely conducted a joint maritime blockade drill in the Miyako Strait for the first time on December 22. The drill involved three PLAN vessels and three CCG vessels. isw.pub/ChinaTaiwanU... (1/7)
January 9, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The PRC telegraphs its punches.
Seminal piece in @WSJ by Dan Michaels on SECNAV’s leadership in forging a national Maritime Statecraft and the bipartisan SHIPS for America Act. Read the whole thing.
America’s Maritime Renaissance is just getting started.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
America’s Maritime Renaissance is just getting started.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Fear That China Rules the Waves Jolts U.S. to Pursue Maritime Revival
The collapse of U.S. commercial shipping and shipbuilding poses a national-security risk, according to a growing chorus in Washington.
www.wsj.com
December 29, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Seminal piece in @WSJ by Dan Michaels on SECNAV’s leadership in forging a national Maritime Statecraft and the bipartisan SHIPS for America Act. Read the whole thing.
America’s Maritime Renaissance is just getting started.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
America’s Maritime Renaissance is just getting started.
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
Finland shows the world how it’s done. Swift and decisive response to maritime gangsterism.
Breaking News: Finland seized an oil tanker it suspected of involvement in damaging undersea cables and suggested it could be part of a Russian shadow fleet.
Finland Seizes Ship After Undersea Cable Is Cut
The country’s prime minister said the incident, the latest in a series of disruptions to undersea infrastructure, underscored the danger of a so-called Russian shadow fleet.
www.nytimes.com
December 26, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Finland shows the world how it’s done. Swift and decisive response to maritime gangsterism.
America’s Maritime Renaissance takes a major step forward.
“In the background of it all has been SECNAV Carlos Del Toro, who has made encouraging foreign investment into American shipyards a key element of his “Maritime Statecraft” initiative…“
breakingdefense.com/2024/12/hanw...
“In the background of it all has been SECNAV Carlos Del Toro, who has made encouraging foreign investment into American shipyards a key element of his “Maritime Statecraft” initiative…“
breakingdefense.com/2024/12/hanw...
Hanwha closes $100M deal to take over Philly Shipyard
The deal is part of a series of aggressive moves Hanwha has taken to solidify its presence in the American defense industrial base this year.
breakingdefense.com
December 21, 2024 at 2:17 AM
America’s Maritime Renaissance takes a major step forward.
“In the background of it all has been SECNAV Carlos Del Toro, who has made encouraging foreign investment into American shipyards a key element of his “Maritime Statecraft” initiative…“
breakingdefense.com/2024/12/hanw...
“In the background of it all has been SECNAV Carlos Del Toro, who has made encouraging foreign investment into American shipyards a key element of his “Maritime Statecraft” initiative…“
breakingdefense.com/2024/12/hanw...
Terrific piece by Dan Michaels in @WSJ on last month’s successful at-sea demonstration of TRAM for Vertical Launch System Connected Underway Replenishment. With quotes from SECNAV.
www.wsj.com/world/china-...
www.wsj.com/world/china-...
Exclusive | China Tensions Prompt U.S. Navy Race to Reload Missiles at Sea
A U.S. destroyer can fire dozens of cruise missiles within minutes, but reloading back in port can take two months. In a war against China, that could be a fatal weakness.
www.wsj.com
December 2, 2024 at 6:25 AM
Terrific piece by Dan Michaels in @WSJ on last month’s successful at-sea demonstration of TRAM for Vertical Launch System Connected Underway Replenishment. With quotes from SECNAV.
www.wsj.com/world/china-...
www.wsj.com/world/china-...
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"Ukrainian victory will serve as the most effective deterrent to future aggression" - Tsai.
The Taiwanese get it. To deter #PRC from attacking #TWN, help #UKR defeat #RUS.
www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
The Taiwanese get it. To deter #PRC from attacking #TWN, help #UKR defeat #RUS.
www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Taiwan’s former president says Ukraine needs US weapons more urgently than Taipei
Tsai Ing-wen’s comments come after a top U.S. military leader said supplying U.S. weapons to Kyiv was cutting into stockpiles that could be used in a war in Asia.
www.politico.com
November 24, 2024 at 2:44 PM
"Ukrainian victory will serve as the most effective deterrent to future aggression" - Tsai.
The Taiwanese get it. To deter #PRC from attacking #TWN, help #UKR defeat #RUS.
www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
The Taiwanese get it. To deter #PRC from attacking #TWN, help #UKR defeat #RUS.
www.politico.com/news/2024/11...