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Sea Control

393 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 34 ratings

Sea Control is CIMSEC's Flagship podcast. We focus on maritime security, history and all things naval.

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Sea Control 191 - The Arctic with Dr. Elizabeth Buchanan and Katie Burkhart

July 26, 2020 04:00 - 42 minutes - 16.2 MB

Links 1. "What’s at Stake With Rising Competition in the Arctic?" by Brian Sittlow, Council on Foreign Relations, May 1, 2020 2. "The United States Must Defend Open Seas in the Arctic," by Jerry Hendrix, The National Review, May 13, 2020 3. "Why NATO Needs a Standing Maritime Group in the Arctic," by Colin Barnard, CIMSEC, May 15, 2020 4. "The U.S. Navy Returns to an Increasingly Militarized Arctic," by David Larter, Defense News, May 12, 2020 5. "Russia’s New Arctic Policy Document Signal...

Sea Control 190 - Greyhound with Doyle Hodges

July 25, 2020 04:00 - 40 minutes - 15.2 MB

Links: 1. Texas National Security Review 2. Horns of a Dilemma Podcast 3. The Good Shepherd

Sea Control 189 - Amphibious Operations in the French & Indian War with Dr. T.J. Linzy

July 19, 2020 16:00 - 54 minutes - 23.2 MB

Link: The Amphibious Imperative of the French & Indian War

Sea Control 188 - Brazilian Maritime Security with Andrea Resende

July 12, 2020 16:00 - 32 minutes - 11.2 MB

Link: Gateway and Neighbourhood: Brazilian Perspective on South Atlantic Security

Sea Control 187 - Why Chicago with Dr. Ted Karamanski and Akshat Patel

July 05, 2020 16:00 - 26 minutes - 12.6 MB

Links: 1.  Mastering the Inland Sea 2. Chicago Maritime Museum 3. Chicago Maritime Museum Recovery Fund

Sea Control 186 - The Battle of Island Number 10 with Dr. Anne Brinton

June 28, 2020 16:00 - 40 minutes - 15.3 MB

On the heels of the Grant miniseries, Dr. Anne Brinton joins the program to revisit some Civil War Naval Integration(TM) in the Western Theater: the Battle for Island Number 10! Dr. Brinton discusses Time, Space and Force, to include the composition of the river fleet, Commodore Andrew Foote, Commander Henry Walke and the dramatic exploits of USS Carondelet.

Sea Control 185 - Stable Seas: Bay of Bengal with Jay Benson and Abhijit Singh

June 21, 2020 16:00 - 58 minutes - 21.8 MB

Links: 1. Observer Research Foundation 2. Stable Seas 3. Stable Seas: Bay of Bengal 4. BIMSTEC 5. IORA

Sea Control 184 - Chokepoints and Littorals with Dr. Heather Venable and Director Valerie Jackson

June 18, 2020 04:00 - 39 minutes - 16.2 MB

Link: Chokepoints and Littorals Week

Sea Control 183 - The Bilgepumps

June 17, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 34 MB

Links: 1. Dr. Alex Clarke's Youtube Channel 2. Drachinifel's Youtube Channel 3. Jamie Seibert's Youtube Channel

Sea Control 182 - In the Shadow of Ultra with Keith Bird and Jason Hines

June 14, 2020 16:00 - 49 minutes - 20.1 MB

Links: 1. In the Shadow of Ultra: A Reappraisal of German Naval Communications Intelligence in 1914-1918 2. Very Special Intelligence: The Story of the Admiralty’s Operational Intelligence Centre 1939-1945 3.Room 40: British Naval Intelligence, 1914–1918 4. Germany's First Cryptanalysis on the Western Front: Decrypting British and French Naval Ciphers in World War I 5. Technology, Shipbuilding and Future Combat in Germany, 1880-1914.” 6. Sins of Omission and Commission: A Reassessment ...

Sea Control 181 - The Amphibious 8th with MG Pat Donahoe and Prof. Don Chisholm

June 07, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour - 24.6 MB

Links: 1. Joint Operational Warfare, Theory and Practice by Milan Vego 2. US Navy Operations in World War II, Vol. XIII by Samuel Eliot Morrison 3. History of the 2nd Engineer Special Brigade 4. The US Army Campaigns of World War II - Southern Philippines 5. MacArthur Reports - Operations of the 8th Army in the Southern Philippines 6. MacArthur's Amphibious Navy

Sea Control 180 - Narrow Seas: The Black Sea with LTG (ret) Ben Hodges

May 31, 2020 16:00 - 34 minutes - 13.8 MB

Links: One Flank, One Threat, One Presence The Naval Power Shift in the Black Sea Russia's Strategy in the Black Sea Basin Geopolitical Gerrymandering and the Importance of Key Maritime Terrain Wargaming of the Black Sea Security Naval Warfare Scenarios for 2020

Sea Control 179 - The Bilgepumps Episode 2

May 27, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 26.9 MB

Links: Dr. Alex Clarke's Youtube Channel Drachinifel's Youtube Channel Jamie Seibert's Youtube Channel

Sea Control 178 - Lawfare at Sea with Dr. Jill Goldenziel

May 26, 2020 15:00 - 29 minutes - 21.7 MB

Links: 1. Law as a Battlefield 2. http://www.jillgoldenziel.com 3. The U.S. Navy's Shifting View of China's Coast Guard and Maritime Militia 4. Permanent Court of Arbitration Republic of The Philippines vs. People's Republic of China

Sea Control 177 - NATO Amphibious Leaders Expeditionary Symposium

May 25, 2020 03:00 - 32 minutes - 13.1 MB

Link: Rand Corporation Report on NALES and NATO's Amphibious Forces

Sea Control 176 - Down South with Rear Admiral (ret) Dr. Chris Parry, CBE

May 21, 2020 04:00 - 1 hour - 23.2 MB

Link: Down South by Rear Admiral (ret) Dr. Chris Parry, CBE

Sea Control 175 - The Bilge Pumps

May 20, 2020 15:00 - 1 hour - 36.5 MB

1. Alex Clarke's Channel, #NavalHistoryLive   2. Drachinifel's Channel 3. Armoured Carriers's Channel  

Sea Control 174 - Operation Megaphone

May 18, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 25.8 MB

1. G-T-S Katie Standoff Ends 2. Operation Megaphone 3. G-T-S Katie Finally Arrives

Sea Control 173 - German Civ-Mil Relations with Sascha Stoltenow and Heike Brüggeman

May 11, 2020 03:00 - 49 minutes - 20.1 MB

Links: 1. Bendler Blog 2. Augen geradeaus! 3. No Parade for Hans - the NY Times 4. Sicherheitshalber 5. Explaining the Poverty of Germany's Strategic Debate 6. No Military Has Done More for Corona-Stricken Allies than Germany's

Sea Control 172 - Mexican Maritime Security with Christian Ehrlich

May 04, 2020 03:00 - 32 minutes - 12.9 MB

Links: 1. Mexican Defense and Security (Spanish language) 2. Pirates Ignore Quarantine, Attack Four Ships in One Week 3. Mexican Strategic Landscape 4. Pirates Raid Ships in the Gulf of Mexico

Sea Control 171 - Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay with Dr. Jamie Goodall

April 27, 2020 03:00 - 34 minutes - 14.7 MB

Links: 1. Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay 2. Dr. Jamie Goodall 3. The Notorious Oyster Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay 4. Commodore Barney at the Bladensburg Races 5. The One-Man Blockade of Great Britain - Thomas Boyle and the 'Pride of Baltimore'

Sea Control 170 - Clausewitz, Corbett & Corvettes with Sascha Rackwitz

April 20, 2020 03:00 - 46 minutes - 19.5 MB

Link: Clausewitz, Corbett & Corvettes

Sea Control 169 - Larry Bond and Sebastian Bruns on Harpoon, Red Storm Rising, and Tom Clancy

April 15, 2020 17:00 - 1 hour - 32.1 MB

Links:  1. A Brief History of Naval Wargames 2. Harpoon 3. The Admiralty Trilogy 4. Sea Control 156: Sink the Montana! 5. Larry Bond on Goodreads 6. Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University 7. Principles of Underwater Sound by Robert Urick 8. US Naval Strategy and National Security by Dr. Sebastian Bruns 9. Kiel Seapower Series

Sea Control 168 - Operation Albion with Dr. Bruce Gudmundsson and Tim Powledge

April 13, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 28.6 MB

Links: 1.  Operation Albion: the German Conquest of the Baltic Islands 2. Military Learning Gateway

Sea Control 167 - Indonesian Maritime Challenges with Natalie Sambhi, Gilang Kembara & Blake Herzinger

April 06, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 29.8 MB

Links: 1. Legacies, Lessons and Lobsters: Indonesia's Maritime Policy in a Post-Susi World 2. The Next Front: China and Indonesia in the South China Sea 3. The China Maritime Militia Bookshelf

Sea Control 166 - Georgetown's Wargaming Program with Sebastian Bae

March 30, 2020 03:00 - 32 minutes - 14.7 MB

Links 1. Georgetown Wargaming Society 2. Reflections on Teaching Wargame Design by James "Pigeon" Fielder 3. Simulating War by Philip Saban

Sea Control 165 - Canadian Fleet Recapitalization with Tim Choi

March 23, 2020 03:00 - 1 hour - 27.6 MB

Links: 1. Canada Chooses BAE-Lockheed Proposal to Build Frigates Based on UK's Type 26-design. 2. Keel Laid for Royal Canadian Navy's Future Joint Support Ship 3. Halifax Shipyard Launches Canada's Second Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship 4. The Quest for the Unconventional-Conventional Submarine 5. Military Shows Off New Cyclone Helicopter Days Before First International Deployment

Sea Control 164 - Defender 2020 with Dr. Sal Mercogliano and Johannes Peters

March 18, 2020 15:00 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MB

Links: 1. ISPK 2. Samuel Eliot Morison, The Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1943 3. NCAGS 4. What the Heck is NCAGS? 5. Navy Drills Atlantic Convoy Ops for First Sime Since Cold War in Defender Europe 2020 6. Convoy Across the Atlantic Will Test Delivery of Equipment to Europe 7. Admiral, I am Not Ready for War

Sea Control 163 - Japanese-US Maritime Intersections in the 1860s with Dr. Nyri Bakkalian

March 16, 2020 03:00 - 35 minutes - 14.9 MB

Links: 1. Van Valkenburgh's Communications to Secretary of State Seward 2. Japan Center for Asian Historical Records scans of Kotetsu-kan Shuryo Tenmatsu (The Particulars of the Kotetsu’s Acquisition) 3. Naval History and Heritage Command, on W.B. Cushing:  4. Van Valkenburgh to SecState Seward, on the Stonewall’s arrival and the question of its handover 5. Van Valkenburgh’s listing in C-SPAN’s records 6. Listing for USN surgeon Samuel Pellman Boyer’s journal  7. Second Listing for US...

Sea Control 162 - Redesigning the Marine Corps with Jon Frerichs and Mark Nostro

March 09, 2020 03:00 - 48 minutes - 21.6 MB

Links: 1. Reinvigorating the Fleet Marine Force 2. Joint Publication 3-32: Joint Maritime Operations 3. MCWP 7-10 Marine Corps Componency 4. To Be Most Ready When the Nation is Least Ready, the Marines Need a New Headquarters

Sea Control 161 - Fatigue is the Navy's Black Lung Disease with Dr. John Cordle

March 02, 2020 04:00 - 36 minutes - 14.7 MB

Links: 1. Fatigue is the Navy's Black Lung Disease by Dr. John Cordle 2. Naval Postgraduate School Crew Endurance  

Sea Control 160 - Exercise Sea Dragon with Von Lambert and Tyler Quinn

February 23, 2020 08:00 - 46 minutes - 21.4 MB

Links: 1. Wargaming Lessons from Exercise Sea Dragon 2. Thinking In Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts, by Annie Duke (@AnnieDuke) 3. Small Boats and Daring Men: Marintime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy, by Benjamin Armstrong (@WWATMD) 4. Training and Education Command (TECOM) Warfighting Society 5. TECOM Warfighting Club by Dr. Ben Jensen 6. Destination Unknown Volume 1  a project of the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Crea...

Sea Control 159: All Things Merchant Marine With Dr. Sal Mercogliano

February 19, 2020 14:00 - 46 minutes - 20.6 MB

The Collected Works of Dr. Sal Mercogliano: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019/august/be-modern-maritime-power   https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2020/january/suppose-there-was-war-and-merchant-marine-didnt-come   https://seahistory.org/wp-content/uploads/SH169_Feature_Jones_Act.pdf   https://seahistory.org/we-built-her-to-bring-them-over-there-the-cruiser-and-transport-force-in-the-great-war/   https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol26/tnm_26_407-424.pdf  ...

Sea Control 158: COVID-19's Impact on the International Maritime Industry with Dr. Sal Mercogliano

February 17, 2020 04:26 - 42 minutes - 21.2 MB

Links: 1. https://gcaptain.com/ships-are-skipping-china-and-its-causing-turmoil-for-trade/?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter 2. https://maritime-executive.com/article/two-cruise-ships-deployed-on-humanitarian-missions 3. https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-evacuate-some-americans-from-diamond-princess-cruise-ship-11581733214?mod=e2tw 4. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/index.html 5. https://maritime-executive.com/article/coronavirus-policies-disrupt-china-s-shipb...

Sea Control 157: Next Stand of the Tin Can Sailors with Roy Draa

February 10, 2020 04:00 - 27 minutes - 11 MB

1. "Next Stand of the Tin Can Sailors" http://cimsec.org/the-next-stand-of-the-tin-can-sailors-building-a-stand-in-naval-force/42350 2. Marine Corps Training and Education Command (TECOM) Warfighting Society https://mca-marines.org/tecom-warfighting-society/

Sea Control 156: Sink the Montana! - Part 1

February 05, 2020 11:00 - 49 minutes - 22 MB

1. https://gijoe.fandom.com/wiki/Sink_the_Montana! From Joepedia, the definitive fan site for everything Joe, the episode summary. 2. https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/battleships/montana-class-bb-67-71.html Naval History and Heritage Command's website for the Montana-class battleships. 3. https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/ships/ships-of-sail/uss-constitution-americas-ship-of-state.html Naval History and Heritage Command's website for the ...

Sea Control 156: Sink the Montana! - Part 2

February 05, 2020 11:00 - 40 minutes - 8.29 MB

1. https://gijoe.fandom.com/wiki/Sink_the_Montana! From Joepedia, the definitive fan site for everything Joe, the episode summary. 2. https://www.history.navy.mil/our-collections/photography/us-navy-ships/battleships/montana-class-bb-67-71.html Naval History and Heritage Command's website for the Montana-class battleships. 3. https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/ships/ships-of-sail/uss-constitution-americas-ship-of-state.html Naval History and Heritage Command's website for the ...

Humanity at Sea and Naval Responses: The Migration and Refugee Crisis in the Mediterranean

February 03, 2020 04:00 - 40 minutes - 37.6 MB

In this episode, Dr. John Shewood, US Navy Historian at the Naval History and Heritage Command, joins Dr. Ruxandra Bosilca, CIMSEC`s Social Media Coordinator, to examine the EU and NATO response to the raging migration and refugee crisis in the Mediterranean.

Sea Control 154: New Forms of Naval Operational Planning with CAPT Bill Shafley

January 26, 2020 04:00 - 38 minutes - 22.3 MB

1. CAPT Bill Shafley's article on new forms of Naval Operational Planning. http://cimsec.org/new-forms-of-naval-operational-planning-for-earning-command-of-the-seas/37641 2. Sir Julian Corbett, Some Principles of Maritime Strategy https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15076/15076-h/15076-h.htm 3. Wayne Hughes, Fleet Tactics and Naval Operations https://www.amazon.com/Fleet-Tactics-Naval-Operations-Professional/dp/1682473376 4. Milan Vego, Joint Operational Warfare, Theory and Practice https...

Sea Control 153: USS Constitution with Angry Staff Officer and Dr. Claude Berube

January 20, 2020 04:00 - 45 minutes - 29.6 MB

1. http://www.angrystaffofficer.com 2. Preble Hall Podcast: https://www.usna.edu/Museum/PrebleHall/index.php The official podcast of the US Naval Academy Museum 3. A Call to the Sea: Captain Charles Stewart of the USS Constitution. @cgberube and coauthor John Rodgaard chronicle the career of, arguably, Constitution's most successful captain. https://www.amazon.com/Call-Sea-Captain-Charles-Constitution/dp/1574885189/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=claude+berube&qid=1578502017&sr=8-3

Sea Control 15IIA: SWO Leather Jackets!

January 15, 2020 08:00 - 26 minutes - 12 MB

https://news.usni.org/2020/01/09/navy-message-authorizing-swo-leather-jacket  

Sea Control 152: Bryan McGrath and Mitch McGuffie on Surface Warfare Officer Training

January 14, 2020 04:29 - 41 minutes - 24.2 MB

“A Rude Awakening,” Mitch McGuffie’s 2009 article details his experiences as a junior exchange officer aboard a Royal Navy frigate. “What Happened to Our Surface Forces,” CAPT Kevin Eyer’s (ret.) 2018 article detailing Surface Navy decision-making since 1999 and its resultant effects. The collected USNI works of CAPT John Cordle (ret.), prodigious chronicler of the Surface Navy. 

Sea Control 151: CIMSEC Fiction Week with Ian Brown

January 14, 2020 04:20 - 41 minutes - 19.1 MB

CIMSEC Fiction Week The Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Creativity Destination: Unknown, the first graphic novel of short stories about future war released by the Krulak Center via Marine Corps University Press. A New Conception of War by Ian T. Brown

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