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 506 - What Wargames Reveal with Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider
Links
1. "What Wargames Really Reveal: Outcomes Matter Less Than Who Pays and Who Plays," by Jacquelyn Schneider, Foreign Affairs, December 26, 2023.
Sea Control 505 - Pirates of the Slave Trade with Dr. Angela Sutton
Links:
1. Pirates of the Slave Trade – The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution, by Angela C. Sutton, Prometheus Books, 2023.
Sea Control 504 - Chinese Maritime Interests in the Indian Ocean with Commodore Venugopal Vengalil
Links
1. “Assessment of Chinese Maritime Interests in Indian Ocean Region,” by Commodore Venugopal Vengalil, Chennai Centre for China Studies, December 7, 2023.
Sea Control 502 - Wartime Command and Control with Admiral Scott Swift (ret.)
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. "Admir…
Sea Control 503 - The British Special Service Squadron with Heather Johnson
Sea Control 501 - Multilateral Approaches to Maritime Security in Oceania with Zach Ota
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.
Sea Control 500 - The UK's Indo-Pacific Engagement with Dr. Peter Chalk
Links
1. “The United Kingdom’s Indo-Pacific Engagement,” by Peter Chalk, War on the Rocks, November 30, 2023.
Sea Control 499 - The US Navy and Diplomacy in South America with Dr. Katrina Ponti
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…
Sea Control 498 - The Academy with David Poyer
Links
1. The Academy - A Dan Lenson Novel, by David Poyer, St. Martin's Press, December 2023.
2. Poyer.com.
Sea Control 497 - Citizen Sailors with Joshua Taylor & Scott Humphrey
Links
1. “Citizen Sailors: The Missing link in Maritime Force Structure,” by Joshua Taylor and Scott Humphrey, War on the Rocks, November 15, 2023.
Sea Control 496 - Naval Presence and the Interwar US Navy with BJ Armstrong
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.
Sea Control 495 - Cocaine Codfish with Aaron Delano-Johnson
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).
Sea Control 494 - Global Force for Good with Dr. John Sherwood
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.
Sea Control 493 - “Assertive Transparency” in the Gray Zone with Ray Powell
- “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 Goirigolza…
Sea Control 492 - Challenges in the Gulf of Guinea with Ebunoluwa Ojo-Ami
Links
Navigating security challenges in West Africa, by Ebunoluwa George Ojo-Ami, International Security Journal, August 9, 2023.
Sea Control 491 - Written in Black and Red: Asymmetric Threats and Affordable Unmanned Vessels With Michael Knickerbocker
Links
1. “Written in Black and Red: Asymmetric Threats and Affordable Unmanned Vessels,” by Michael Knickerbocker, War on the Rocks, January 3, 2024
Sea Control 490 - Islamic Maritime Law with Dr. Hassan Khalilieh
Link:
Islamic Law of the Sea – Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought, Cambridge University Press, April 2019.
Sea Control 489 - The Strategic Importance of NATO's North Flank with Julian Pawlak
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.
Sea Control 488 - Disaster at Honda Point with Robert Kolker
Links
1. "Dead Reckoning," by Robert Kolker, The Atavist Magazine, No. 142, August 2023.
Sea Control 487 - Naval Exploration and Global Empire with Michael Verney
- 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.