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Sea Control 504 - Chinese Maritime Interests in the Indian Ocean with Commodore Venugopal Vengalil

Sea Control - March 22, 2024 10:11 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. “Assessment of Chinese Maritime Interests in Indian Ocean Region,” by Commodore Venugopal Vengalil, Chennai Centre for China Studies, December 7, 2023. 2. Commodore Venugopal Vengali’s X Feed.

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Sea Control 503 - The British Special Service Squadron with Heather Johnson

Sea Control - March 14, 2024 13:00 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. British Special Service Squadron. 2. National Museum of the Royal Navy.

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Sea Control 502 - Wartime Command and Control with Admiral Scott Swift (ret.)

Sea Control - March 14, 2024 13:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. "Wartime Command and Control," by Admiral Scott Swift (ret.), Proceedings, January 2024. 2. Sea Control 254 - Defining Readiness with Admiral Scott Swift (ret.), CIMSEC, May 28, 2021. 3. "Admiral Scott Swift on Leadership, Risk, and a Life in the U.S. Navy," by Christopher Nelson, CI...

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Sea Control 501 - Multilateral Approaches to Maritime Security in Oceania with Zach Ota

Sea Control - March 10, 2024 05:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links: 1. 21st Century as the Pacific Century – Culture and Security of Oceania States in Great Power Competition, edited by Joanna Siekiera, University of Warsaw Press, 2023.  2. Sea Control 255 - Littoral Access Companies with Zach Ota, CIMSEC, June 3, 2021.  3. Sea Control 304 -France in t...

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Sea Control 500 - The UK's Indo-Pacific Engagement with Dr. Peter Chalk

Sea Control - March 07, 2024 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. “The United Kingdom’s Indo-Pacific Engagement,” by Peter Chalk, War on the Rocks, November 30, 2023. 

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Sea Control 499 - The US Navy and Diplomacy in South America with Dr. Katrina Ponti

Sea Control - March 02, 2024 14:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links: 1.  Seapower by Other Means, edited by J. Overton, ISPK Seapower Series, 2023.  2. Sea Control 487 - Naval Exploration and Global Empire with Dr. Michael Verney, CIMSEC, December 28, 2023.  3. Dr. Katrina Ponti

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Sea Control 498 - The Academy with David Poyer

Sea Control - February 29, 2024 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. The Academy - A Dan Lenson Novel, by David Poyer, St. Martin's Press, December 2023.  2. Poyer.com.

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Sea Control 497 - Citizen Sailors with Joshua Taylor & Scott Humphrey

Sea Control - February 24, 2024 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. “Citizen Sailors: The Missing link in Maritime Force Structure,” by Joshua Taylor and Scott Humphrey, War on the Rocks, November 15, 2023.  2. “The U.S. Navy Needs Its Own Bonds to Be Ready for China,” by Joshua Taylor, Foreign Policy, November 5, 2021. 

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Sea Control 496 - Naval Presence and the Interwar US Navy with BJ Armstrong

Sea Control - February 22, 2024 14:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1.  Naval Presence and the Interwar US Navy and Marine Corps, Forward Deployment, Crisis Response, and the Tyranny of History, by Benjamin Armstrong, Routledge, 2024. 2. Sea Control 239 - Things Done By Halves with Dr. BJ Armstrong, CIMSEC, April 11, 2021.  3. Sea Control 311  - Develop...

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Sea Control 495 - Cocaine Codfish with Aaron Delano-Johnson

Sea Control - February 17, 2024 14:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links: 1. “Cocaine Codfish: How the War on Drugs Can Inform the Fight Against Illegal Fishing,” by Aaron Delano-Johnson, War on the Rocks (October 16, 2023).  2. “A Plan to Push Back Against China’s Fishing Practices” by Aaron Delano-Johnson and Chris Bernotavicus, War on the Rocks (December 2...

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Sea Control 494 - Global Force for Good with Dr. John Sherwood

Sea Control - February 15, 2024 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. A Global Force for Good: Sea Services Humanitarian Operations in the Twenty-First Century, by John Sherwood, Naval History and Heritage Command, September 2023.

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Sea Control 493 - “Assertive Transparency” in the Gray Zone with Ray Powell

Sea Control - February 08, 2024 14:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
“Game Changer: The Philippines’ Assertive Transparency Campaign: How the Philippines Rewrote the Counter Gray Zone Playbook in 2023”, by Col. Raymond Powell US Air Force (Ret) and Benjamin Goirigolzarri Ph. D., Stratbase ADRi, January 12, 2024 Sea Control 456 - China’s Maritime Gray Zone Tacti...

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Sea Control 492 - Challenges in the Gulf of Guinea with Ebunoluwa Ojo-Ami

Sea Control - February 01, 2024 11:00 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links Navigating security challenges in West Africa, by Ebunoluwa George Ojo-Ami, International Security Journal, August 9, 2023. 

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Sea Control 491 - Written in Black and Red: Asymmetric Threats and Affordable Unmanned Vessels With Michael Knickerbocker

Sea Control - January 25, 2024 14:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. “Written in Black and Red: Asymmetric Threats and Affordable Unmanned Vessels,” by Michael Knickerbocker, War on the Rocks, January 3, 2024 2. “Trashing Energy Needs: A Cast for Expanded Plasma Gasification Use by the US Military,” by Michael Knickerbocker, The Defense Post, October 2...

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Sea Control 490 - Islamic Maritime Law with Dr. Hassan Khalilieh

Sea Control - January 18, 2024 11:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Link:  Islamic Law of the Sea – Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought, Cambridge University Press, April 2019. 

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Sea Control 489 - The Strategic Importance of NATO's North Flank with Julian Pawlak

Sea Control - January 11, 2024 11:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Link: Collective Defence and Bastion: The Strategic Importance of NATO’s Northern Flank, by Julian Pawlak, German Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies, March 2022.

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Sea Control 488 - Disaster at Honda Point with Robert Kolker

Sea Control - January 04, 2024 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. "Dead Reckoning," by Robert Kolker, The Atavist Magazine, No. 142, August 2023.  2. Robert Kolker's official website.

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Sea Control 487 - Naval Exploration and Global Empire with Michael Verney

Sea Control - December 28, 2023 14:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
A Great and Rising Nation – Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic, by Michael A. Verney, The University of Chicago Press, 2022.


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Sea Control 485 - Napoleonic Wars in the Adriatic with Dave Watson

Sea Control - December 14, 2023 10:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links: The Frontier Sea: The Napoleonic Wars in the Adriatic, by Dave Watson, Balkan Military History, 2023. Balkan Military History 

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Sea Control 484 - LST-325: From Normandy to Indiana with Ken Rupp

Sea Control - December 07, 2023 10:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. USS LST-325 Ship Memorial Website. 2. Bringing Back a Hero, by Robert D. Jornlin, Jornlin Farm, 2014.

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Sea Control 483 - The Transformation of Maritime Professions with Dr. Karel Davids

Sea Control - November 30, 2023 11:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. The Transformation of Maritime Professions: Old and New Jobs in European Shipping Industries, 1850-2000, edited by Karel Davids and Joost Schokkenbroek, Palgrave MacMillan, 2023.

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Sea Control 482 - “An Honorable Place in American Air Power": Civil Air Patrol Operations, 1942-1943 with Dr. Frank Blazich

Sea Control - November 26, 2023 05:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. An Honorable Place in American Air Power:” Civil Air Patrol Operations, 1942-1943 by Frank Blazich, Air University Press, 2020. 2. Civil Air Patrol Air Force Auxiliary website.

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Sea Control 481 - Logistics Interdiction in Taiwan Unification Campaigns with Michael Hugos and Dr. Ed Salo

Sea Control - November 19, 2023 05:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. Logistics interdiction for Taiwan Unification Campaigns, by Jacob Maywald, Benjamin Hazen, Edward Salo, and Michael Hugos, War on the Rocks, August 21, 2023.

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Sea Control 480 – Ill-Fitting Immersion Suits with Dr. Rosemary Ricciardelli

Sea Control - November 16, 2023 14:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. Ethnographic and lived experience of cold-water immersion: The compromised survival of women at sea due to ill-fitting immersion suits. by Rosemary Ricciardelli and Heather Carnahan, Journal of Maritime Research, February 6, 2023

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Sea Control 479 - The Life of a Flag Aide with Major Lauren Serrano

Sea Control - November 12, 2023 05:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. "Aides Are More than Bag Carriers," by Major Lauren Serrano, Proceedings, July 2023.

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Sea Control 478 - A Sober Analysis of Ukrainian Success in the Black Sea with Thord Are Iversen

Sea Control - November 09, 2023 11:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. “On Understanding the Naval War,” by Thord Are Iversen, Reports by T.A. Iversen, October 5, 2023. 2. Reports by T.A. Iversen.

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Sea Control 477 - Scandinavian Responses to Great Power War at Sea with Dr. Steve Murdoch

Sea Control - November 05, 2023 04:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c. 1500-1815, edited by J.D. Davies, Alan James, Gijs Rommelse,Routledge, 2019.

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Sea Control 476 - Titanic & the City of Widows with Julie Cook

Sea Control - November 02, 2023 09:00 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. The Titanic and the City of Widows It Left Behind – The Forgotten Victims of the Fatal Voyage, by Julie Cook, Pen and Sword History, April 6, 2020.

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Sea Control 475 - Island Campaigns and the Founding of the PLA Navy with Dr. Toshi Yoshihara

Sea Control - October 29, 2023 04:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 34 ratings
Links 1. Red Star Over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy, second edition, by Toshi Yoshihara and James Holmes, USNI Books, 2018.  2. Mao’s Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China’s Navy, by Toshi Yoshihara, Georgetown University Pres...

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