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KISS 2025

The Kiel International Seapower Symposium 2025 – KISS25 – was held in the context of tremendous and palpable global and political changes. Leadership transitions in major allied nations are underway. Meanwhile, military conflicts abound, from the Black Sea to the Red Sea, from the seabed in the Baltic to space, and from the Middle East to the Taiwan Strait.

Dreizack 2025

For the ninth year in a row, the network conference "Dreizack" for young scientists in the research field of Maritime Strategy and Security took place in March 2023. With its proximity to the Naval Memorial and the submarine U 995, the Hotel Admiral Scheer repeatedly proved to be the perfect venue.

KISS 2024

War at sea has returned to Europe, and it is happening in the Black Sea theater. It does not pit fleets against one another, but rather an overwhelming but vulnerable navy against a much smaller but agile player equipped with anti-ship missiles, naval drones, and more. Maritime critical infrastructure is part of consideration for the warfighting parties. But is the Black Sea a useful template for the next war at sea? Or is it a potentially dangerous diversion for Western navies, their defense-industrial bases, and their academic analysts?