Sea Control
Sea Control is CIMSEC's Flagship podcast. We focus on maritime security, naval affairs, and defense and foreign policy.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 444
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Sea Control 586: What Moral Leadership Looks Like
Links:
“Stoicism as a Warrior Philosophy,” by William Spears: https://a.co/d/c8xIdhB
William Spears: https://williamcspears.com/
Bio: Commander William C. Spears is a submarine warfare officer in the U…
Sea Control 585: Imperial Germany and China’s Basing Ambitions with Chuck Ridgway
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1. "What Imperial Germany Teaches About China’s Naval Basing Ambitions," by Chuck Ridgway, Proceedings, May 2025.
Sea Control 584: Wargaming in the Pacific with Chris Denzel and Sebastian Bae
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Sea Control 583: Shaping the Blue Dragon with Ronald Po
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2. Shaping the Blue Dragon Maritime China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, by Ronald Po, Liverpool University Press, 2024.
Sea Control 579: Partnering for Conflict in the Western Pacific
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1. "Partnering Will Determine the First Days of Conflict in the Western Pacific," by Ben Van Horrick, Proceedings, December 2024.
2. "Resolute Dragon: Reassurance, Deterrence, and a Call for Coor…
Sea Control 578: Chinese Amphibious Warfare with Andrew Erickson
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1. Chinese Amphibious Warfare, edited by Andrew Erickson, et al., Naval War College, China Maritime Studies Institute, 2024.
Sea Control 577: Reconceptualizing War with Ben Zweibelson
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1. Reconceptualizing War, by Ben Zweibelson, Helion & Company, 2025.
2. Understanding the Military Design Movement, by Ben Zweibelson, Routledge, 2024.
Sea Control 576: Rescuing Heritage from Humiliation with Tommy Jamison
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1. Sea Control 379: Pacific Wars 1864-1897 with Dr. Tommy Jamison
2. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: Perceptions, Power and Primacy, by SCM Paine, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
3. The Pac…
Sea Control 575: Baltic Conundrums with Sebastian Bruns
1. "Conundrums, right ahead: Five strategic concerns for Baltic Sea decision-makers," by Sebastian Bruns, Royal Swedish Naval Society, 2024. (Website is in Swedish, Click the Ladda ned button to down…
Sea Control 574: Diplomacy for Better Stand-in Force Access in Japan with Daniel Hough
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1. "Diplomacy for Better Stand-In Force Access in Japan," by Daniel Hough, Proceedings, September 2024.
Sea Control 573: The Great North Challenges the Mediterranean with Federico Petroni
Attention: This podcast is offered in both Italian and English skip to 26:21 for the English version.
Links:
1. Artics fevers, Limes, Feb 2019 https://www.limesonline.com/rivista/la-febbre-dell-artico-…
Sea Control 572: Arms for Russia with Andrew Boyd
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1. Arms for Russia and the Naval War in the Arctic, 1941-1945, by Andrew Boyd, U.S. Naval Institute Press, 2024.
2. Andrew Boyd Twitter.
Sea Control 571: Revolutionary Taiwan with Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison
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1. Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World Order, by Catherine Lila Chou and Mark Harrison, Cambria, 2024.
2. Taiwan's 400 Year History: Anniversary Edition, by Su Beng, 施朝暉, …
Sea Control 570: Brent Jurmu on Equipping the Marine Reconnaissance Battalion Now
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1. "Equip the Mobile Reconnaissance Battalion Now More than a new platform," by Maj Brent Jurmu, Capt Brandon Klewicki, and Maj Matthew Tweedy, Marine Corps Gazette, May 2024.
Sea Control 569: The U.S. Navy and Innovation
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1. The U.S. Navy and Innovation: Twentieth-Century Case Studies, edited by Peter C. Luebke, U.S. Navy History and Heritage Command, September 2024.
J. Overton is co-host of the Sea Control podca…
Sea Control 568 - An Australian Coast Guard
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1. "Time for an Australian Coast Guard," by Jennifer Parker, Australian Naval Institute, November 2024.
2. Twitter: JAParker29
3. Jennifer Parker personal website.
Sea Control 567: E-2 Hawkeyes Over the Red Sea with LCDR Nathan Sawyer
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1. “Beyond Tactics: How the Hawkeye Proved the Power of Adaptability in the Red Sea,” by Nathan Sawyer, USNI Proceedings, October 2024.
2. Nathan Sawyer Linkedin profile.