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Sea Control 592: The US Coast Guard in the Aleutian Islands with Steven Hulse
Dec 9, 2025·—
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Links 1. “ Bases on the Aleutians Islands Would Project Power Across the Pacific ,” by Steven Hulse, Proceedings, January 2025.

Sea Control 591: Maritime Statecraft and Its Future with Steve Brock and Hunter Stires
Dec 2, 2025·—
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Links 1. " Maritime Statecraft and its Future ," by Steve Brock and Hunter Stires, CIMSEC, October 21, 2025. 2. " SECNAV Del Toro Calls for a New, Bold Maritime Statecraft in Era of Intense Strategic Competition ," Department of the Navy, September 23, 2023.

Sea Control 590: Drone Carriers and Salvo Equations with Colton Byers
Nov 20, 2025·—
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Links “ Carrier 2.0: The Drone Carrier Revolution ,” by Colton Byers, War Quants, December 28, 2024. “ Damn the Torpedoes: The Return of Naval Mining ,” by Colton Byers, War Quants, January 31, 2025.

Sea Control 589: Non-state Special Operations with Craig Whiteside
Nov 7, 2025·—
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Links 1. Non-state Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects , Ian Rice and Craig Whiteside, Routledge, 2025. 2. The Isis Reader Substack . 3. @CraigAWhiteside on X . 4. @[email protected] on BlueSky . 5. Craig Whiteside personal site and publications .

Sea Control 588: Outsourcing Security at Sea with Pieter Zhao
Oct 21, 2025·—
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1. " Outsourcing Security at Sea—The Return of Private Maritime-Security Companies and Their Role in Twenty-First-Century Maritime Security ," by Pieter Zhao, Naval War College Review , Winter 2024. 2. Irregular Warfare Initiative. 3. Pieter Zhao LinkedIn. 4. Pieter Zhao BlueSky. 5. Pieter Zhao Contact Page.

Sea Control 587: 20 Years After the Military Response to Hurricane Katrina
Sep 27, 2025·—
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Links 1. Elaine Helm Linkedin .

Sea Control 586: What Moral Leadership Looks Like with William Spears
Sep 16, 2025·—
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Links 1. " What Moral Leadership Looks Like ," by William Spears, CIMSEC, July 16, 2025. 2. Stoicism as a Warrior Philosophy: Insights on the Morality of Military Service , by William Spears, Casemate, 2025. 3. William Spears website .

Sea Control 585: Imperial Germany and China’s Basing Ambitions with Chuck Ridgway
Sep 6, 2025·—
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Links 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
Aug 15, 2025·—
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Links 1. Sebastian Bae Twitter .

Sea Control 583: Shaping the Blue Dragon with Ronald Po
Jul 23, 2025·—
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Links 1. 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

Sea Control 582: Guns, Ships and Money.
Jul 13, 2025·—
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Ships, 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 volunteering Maurizio Isabella providing a good summary of histories of Italy in the nineteenth-century David Sims with using a "follow the money" approach to Irish nationalism in the same time period And finally some background on the nineteenth-century Mediterranean

Sea Control 581: The MLR's Missing Link
Jul 5, 2025·—
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The Marine Littoral Regiment's Missing Link

Sea Control 580: Building Resilient Kill Chains
Jun 27, 2025·—
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Building Resilient Kill Chains for the Stand in Force

Sea Control 579: Partnering for Conflict in the Western Pacific
Jun 17, 2025·—
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Links 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 Coordination," by Bill Matory and Ben Van Horrick, War on the Rocks, December 6, 2023.

Sea Control 578: Chinese Amphibious Warfare with Andrew Erickson
Jun 12, 2025·—
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Links 1. 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

Sea Control 577: Reconceptualizing War with Ben Zweibelson
Jun 10, 2025·—
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Links 1. 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.

Sea Control 576: Rescuing Heritage from Humiliation with Tommy Jamison
Jun 7, 2025·—
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Links 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 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.

Sea Control 575: Baltic Conundrums with Sebastian Bruns
Jun 4, 2025·—
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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 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.

Sea Control 574: Diplomacy for Better Stand-in Force Access in Japan with Daniel Hough
May 27, 2025·—
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Links 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
May 15, 2025·—
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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-14632937/ 2. Artico: attacco al Mediterraneo? Da Taiwan a Gibilterra - Le Giornate del Mare 2024 a Roma, Limes, Nov 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXRDmb2EsHA Italian La Battaglia per l’Artico: Il Grande Nord sfida il Mediterraneo – Nuova Guerra Fredda o Terra di Nessuno? Federico Petroni si unisce al programma per discutere di geopolitica artica. Federico Petroni è un analista geopolitico di Limes , la rivista italiana di geopolitica, e coordinatore della Scuola di Limes . Questo episodio è stato montato e prodotto da Alexia Bouallagui. È il primo episodio di una serie pensata per approfondire la ricerca sulla sicurezza marittima italiana. Links: La febbre dell’Artico, Limes , febbraio 2019 https://www.limesonline.com/rivista/la-febbre-dell-artico-14632937/ Artico: attacco al Mediterraneo? Da Taiwan a Gibilterra - Le Giornate del Mare 2024 a Roma, Limes, Nov 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXRDmb2EsHA

Sea Control 572: Arms for Russia with Andrew Boyd
May 7, 2025·—
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Links 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
Apr 23, 2025·—
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Links 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, 2017. 3. Catherine Lila Cho Twitter account . 4. Mark Harrison Twitter account .

Sea Control 570: Brent Jurmu on Equipping the Marine Reconnaissance Battalion Now
Apr 10, 2025·—
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Links 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
Mar 27, 2025·—
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Links 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 podcast and edited the essay collection “Seapower by Other Means: Naval Contributions to National Objectives Beyond Sea Control, Power Projection, and Traditional Service Missions.”

Sea Control 568 - An Australian Coast Guard
Mar 25, 2025·—
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Links 1. " Time for an Australian Coast Guard," by Jennifer Parker, Australian Naval Institute, November 2024. 2. Twitter: JAParker29 3. Jennifer Parker personal website .


