A year ago, we argued that maritime insecurity risked becoming as destabilizing as land-based conflict. Today, that warning largely holds, and in some ways has become direr. The oceans have become a primary operating environment for geopolitical competition. The result is an economic landscape in which shipping routes, insurance markets and infrastructure protection are core […]
The New Maritime Operating Environment
Rerouting, rising war-risk premiums and infrastructure surveillance have turned maritime security into a hidden tax on global trade.
