Podcast
Sea Control
Hosted by CIMSEC Podcasting Team · EN
Sea Control is CIMSEC's Flagship podcast. We focus on maritime security, naval affairs, and defense and foreign policy.
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Sea Control 584: Wargaming in the Pacific with Chris Denzel and Sebastian Bae
Aug 1500:55:16Tap to summarizeLinks1. Sebastian Bae Twitter.
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Sea Control 583: Shaping the Blue Dragon with Ronald Po
Jul 23, 202500:27:51Tap to summarizeLinks1. Dr Ronald C. Po profile.2. Shaping the Blue Dragon Maritime China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, by Ronald Po, Liverpool University Press, 2024.3. Dr. Xing Hang on the Zheng regime in Taiwan.4. Dr. Ling-wei Kung on the Manchu's maritime awareness prior to establishing their capital in Beijing
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Sea Control 582: Guns, Ships and Money.
Jul 13, 202500:27:57Tap to summarizeShips, Guns and Money: The Logistics of Revolution and Garibaldi’s Campaign of 1860 Garibaldi: Invention of a Hero (Yale University Press, 2007), by Lucy Riall. Enrico Acciai with a more long-term history of Garibaldi's legacy in the terms of war volunteeringMaurizio Isabella providing a good summary of histories of Italy in the nineteenth-centuryDavid Sims with using a "follow the money" approach to Irish nationalism in the same time periodAnd finally some background on the nineteenth-century Mediterranean
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Sea Control 581: The MLR's Missing Link
Jul 5, 202500:41:46Tap to summarizeThe Marine Littoral Regiment's Missing Link
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Sea Control 580: Building Resilient Kill Chains
Jun 27, 202500:44:59Tap to summarizeBuilding Resilient Kill Chains for the Stand in Force
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Sea Control 579: Partnering for Conflict in the Western Pacific
Jun 17, 202500:21:24Tap to summarizeLinks1. "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 Coordination," by Bill Matory and Ben Van Horrick, War on the Rocks, December 6, 2023.
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Sea Control 578: Chinese Amphibious Warfare with Andrew Erickson
Jun 12, 202501:17:26Tap to summarizeLinks1. Chinese Amphibious Warfare, edited by Andrew Erickson, et al., Naval War College, China Maritime Studies Institute, 2024.2. China Maritime Studies Institute homepage. 3. Dr. Andrew Erickson's homepage.4. "Invasion Plans: Operation Causeway and Taiwan’s Defense in World War II," by Ian Easton, China Maritime Studies Institute, Naval War College, 2024. 4. China's New Navy: The Evolution of the PLAN from the People's Revolution to a 21st Century Cold War, by Xiaobing Li, USNI Press, 2023.5. Mao's Army Goes to Sea, by Toshi Yoshihara, Georgetown University Press, 2023.6. Andrew Erickson's Twitter.Dr. Andrew S. Erickson is Professor of Strategy (tenured full professor) in the U.S. Naval War College (NWC)’s China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI). A core founding member, he helped establish CMSI and stand it up officially in 2006, and has played an integral role in its development; from 2021–23 he served as Research Director. Erickson is currently a Visiting Scholar in full-time residence at Harvard University’s John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, where he has been an Associate in Research since 2008. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Institute of Maritime Policy & Strategy’s International Advisory Committee, and the Japan-America Society of Southern New England and Japan-America Navy Friendship Association (JANAFA)-Newport’s Board of Directors. Erickson serves on the editorial boards of Naval War College Review and Asia Policy and is a Contributing Editor at 19FortyFive. Twitter
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Sea Control 577: Reconceptualizing War with Ben Zweibelson
Jun 10, 202500:48:11Tap to summarizeLinks1. Reconceptualizing War, by Ben Zweibelson, Helion & Company, 2025.2. Understanding the Military Design Movement, by Ben Zweibelson, Routledge, 2024.3. Beyond the Pale: Designing Military Decision-Making Anew, by Ben Zweibelson, Air University Press, 2023.4. War Becoming Phantasmal: A Cognitive Shift in Organized Violence beyond Traditional Limits, by Ben Zweibelson, Marine Corps University Press, May 2024.5. "Breaking the Newtonian Fetish," by Ben Zweibelson, Journal of Advanced Military Studies, Vol. 15. No. 1.
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Sea Control 576: Rescuing Heritage from Humiliation with Tommy Jamison
Jun 7, 202500:35:23Tap to summarizeLinks1. Sea Control 379: Pacific Wars 1864-1897 with Dr. Tommy Jamison2. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: Perceptions, Power and Primacy, by SCM Paine, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 3. The Pacific’s New Navies: An Ocean, It’s Wars and the Making of US Sea Power, by Tommy Jamison, Cambridge University Press, 2024. 4. Tommy Jamison Linkedin.
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Sea Control 575: Baltic Conundrums with Sebastian Bruns
Jun 4, 202500:26:01Tap to summarize1. "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 download the issue, the article is on page 61 of the PDF in English.)2."From 'Flooded Meadow' to Maritime Hotspot: Keeping the Baltic Sea Free, Open, and Interconnected," by Sebastian Bruns, Carnegie Endowment, December 20, 2023.3. Sea Control 548 – Maritime Competition in the Mediterranean with Dr. Sebastian Bruns & Dr. Jeremy Stöhs, by Jared Samuelson, CIMSEC, September 21, 2024.4. Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University.
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