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- Iran’s Islands and the Strategic Architecture of the Strait of Hormuz
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- The possibility of establishing a special regime for the Strait of Hormuz: legal, maritime and geopolitical arguments
- The French nuclear deterrence initiative and European security: legal and strategic implications of a debate on Romania
- “The Stratified Conflict: Multidomain Warfare and Iran’s Strategic Dynamics in the Middle East”
- PHASES OF THE ATTACK ON IRAN AND MULTIDOMAIN WARFARE
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The Maritime Security Forum (hereafter used with the acronym “MSF”) is the scientific initiative of the ADMIRALS CLUB and is a platform for creating and disseminating knowledge and information in maritime security, which carries out a scientific activity and organizes information and public debate events. The MSF is also an environment for public dissemination and communication in naval policy, shipping, safety, maritime security and defence. Through cooperation with the professional-institutional and the academic and scientific research environment, the MSF offers opportunities to connect and integrate into the national networks of knowledge, dissemination and collaboration in the fields of naval policies, the development of the Blue Economy, security and defence, safety, maritime resilience and naval transport, to develop synergistic programs in the areas of interest.
Staff

Aurel POPA
Admiral (ret.) PhD.
President

Sorin LEARSCHI
RAdm(LH) (ret.) Principal lect. PhD.
Director

Ion CUSTURĂ
RAdm(LH) (ret.) PhD.
Deputy director
Experts

Marius Hanganu
RAdm(LH) (ret.) prof. univ. PhD.

CLC Laurentiu MIRONESCU
Director COREMAR, President of the Romanian Naval League

Ion Plăviciosu
Vam. (ret.) PhD.

Ștefan Dănilă
Gl. (ret.) PhD.
Articles
- The decline of Iran’s naval power in the current conflict. The destruction of major platforms and the survival of asymmetric capabilitiesSharing is Caring: Copy 0 Twitter 0 Facebook 0 More Sharing is Caring: Copy 0 Twitter 0 Facebook 0 Reddit 0 Pinterest 0 62 The decline of Iran’s naval power in the current conflict. The destruction of major platforms and the survival of asymmetric capabilities Analytical study – Maritime Security Forum Authors: Admiral (ret.) PhD.… Read More »The decline of Iran’s naval power in the current conflict. The destruction of major platforms and the survival of asymmetric capabilities
- Iran’s Islands and the Strategic Architecture of the Strait of HormuzSharing is Caring: Copy 0 Twitter 0 Facebook 0 More Sharing is Caring: Copy 0 Twitter 0 Facebook 0 Reddit 0 Pinterest 0 57 Iran’s Islands and the Strategic Architecture of the Strait of Hormuz: militarised geography, the role of the IRGC Navy, maritime interdiction and the logic of blockades Analysis: MARITIME SECURITY FORUM In… Read More »Iran’s Islands and the Strategic Architecture of the Strait of Hormuz
- The possibility of establishing a special regime for the Strait of Hormuz: legal, maritime and geopolitical argumentsSharing is Caring: Copy 0 Twitter 0 Facebook 0 More Sharing is Caring: Copy 0 Twitter 0 Facebook 0 Reddit 0 Pinterest 0 50 The possibility of establishing a special regime for the Strait of Hormuz: legal, maritime and geopolitical arguments ANALYSIS: MARITIME SECURITY FORUM Authors: Admiral (ret.) PhD Aurel POPA, Captain (ret.) PhD Sorin… Read More »The possibility of establishing a special regime for the Strait of Hormuz: legal, maritime and geopolitical arguments

MS Daily Brief
The Maritime Security Forum is pleased to provide you with a product, in the form of a daily newsletter, through which we present the most relevant events and information on naval issues, especially those related to maritime security and other related areas. It aims to present a clear and concise assessment of the most recent and relevant news in this area, with references to sources of information. MS Daily Brief will be published from Monday to Friday. Saturday will be published Weekly Brief

Events
A new study by the Maritime Security Forum entitled: Russia’s strategic naval naval collapse in the context of the war in Ukraine (2022-2025)
ARGUMENT
The analysis of contemporary conflicts, especially in their naval dimension, remains insufficiently covered in recent strategic literature, despite the marked developments in the tools and technologies of sea warfare. Our century, marked by the chameleonic features of hybrid warfare, the intersection of the gray areas of confrontation with new combat technologies, has revealed a dynamic of naval conflicts that can no longer be understood solely in conventional terms of numerical or technological superiority.
Our study aims to provide those interested with an in-depth strategic analysis of one of the least anticipated yet spectacular phenomena of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict: the accelerated degradation of the myth of the Russian Federation’s naval capabilities, especially in the Black Sea, as a result of Ukraine’s technological, tactical and informational adaptation.
Between 2022 and 2025, the war between Russia and Ukraine produced major transformations not only on land and in the air, but also in maritime space, demonstrating that traditional naval supremacy can be rapidly eroded through asymmetric, creative and relatively low-cost means. The Russian fleet, perceived for decades as an essential instrument of force projection in the Black Sea, became, in the course of the conflict, a vivid example of the vulnerability of conventional large structures to new types of warfare.
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