
Sea Control
Sea Control is CIMSEC's Flagship podcast. We focus on maritime security, naval affairs, and defense and foreign policy.
Latest episodes

Sep 25, 2022 • 24min
Sea Control 383 - Regaining the High Ground for Naval Aviation with Bryan Clark
Links:1. Regaining the High Ground Against China: A Plan to Achieve US Naval Aviation Superiority This Decade, by Bryan Clark and Timothy A. Walton, Hudson Institute, April 2022. 2. Sea Control 204 - American Sea Power at a Crossroads with Bryan Clark and Tim Walton, CIMSEC, October 6, 2020.3. Sea Control 272 - Changing the Navy's Force Generation Model with Bryan Clark and Bryan McGrath, CIMSEC, September 2, 2021.

Sep 22, 2022 • 24min
Sea Control 382 - Russian NOTAM Use Near Norway with Dr. Kristian Åtland
Link:1. Military Muscle-Flexing as Interstate Communication: Russian NOTAM Warnings off the Coast of Norway, 2015-2021 , by Kristian Åtland, Thomas Nilsen & Torbjørn Pedersen, Scandinavian Journal of Military Studies, 14 Jun 2022.2. Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI)

Sep 18, 2022 • 23min
Sea Control 381 - How to Win Friends & Influence Shipbuilding with Eric Hovey
Link:How to Win Friends and Influence Shipbuilding. Marine Corps modernization and the amphibious Navy, by Maj Eric S. Hovey, Marine Corps Gazette, June 2022.

Sep 15, 2022 • 38min
Sea Control 380 - Underwriters of the United States with Dr. Hannah Farber
Links:1. Underwriters of the United States: How Insurance Shaped the American Founding, by Hannah Farber, Omohundro Insitute of Early American History and Culture/UNC Press, November 2021. 2. Sea Control 375 - The East India Company and Modern State Sovereignty with Dr. Swati Srivastava, CIMSEC, Aug 28, 2022.

Sep 11, 2022 • 37min
Sea Control 379 - Pacific Wars, 1864-1897, and the Making of the U.S. Navy with Dr. Tommy Jamison
Links1. “Looks Like a Chilean War:” The Baltimore Incident as a Counterfactual Exercise,” by Tommy Jamison, CIMSEC (October 22, 2015). 2. Sea Control 239: “Things Done By Halves” with Dr. BJ Armstrong, CIMSEC (April 11, 2021).

Sep 8, 2022 • 55min
Sea Control 378 - Victory at Sea with Dr. Paul Kennedy
Links1. "Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II," by Paul Kennedy, Yale University Press, 2022.2.Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, Yale University.3. "The Navy Made America a Superpower Once. Can It Again?," by Alexander Wooley, Foreign Policy, May 20, 2022.4. "A marriage of the geopolitical, the military and the material — Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II by Paul Kennedy review," by Lincoln Paine, Englesberg Ideas, June 17, 2022.

Sep 4, 2022 • 28min
Sea Control 377 - Intelligence Analysis and Analytic Reflection with Dr. Brian Holmes
Links1. “Analytic Reflection: Measuring the Attributes of Open and All-Source Intelligence,” by Brian Holmes, Homeland Security Today, June 8, 2020.2. “Feedback Driven Decisions and the Evolution of Intelligence Analysis in the United States," by Brian Holmes, The Strategy Bridge, January 23, 2020.3. “A Short History of Maritime Intelligence Integration,” by Dr. Brian Holmes, NMIO Technical Bulletin, March 2019, p. 4-5.4. Brian Holmes, Author at Hstoday.

Sep 1, 2022 • 26min
Sea Control 376 - Iceberg Sovereignty with Dr. Corine Wood-Donnelly
Links1. "Iceberg sovereignty," by Corine Wood-Donnelly, Marine Policy, Volume 143, September 2022.2. Dr. Corine Wood-Donnelly personal website.

Aug 28, 2022 • 25min
Sea Control 375 - The East India Company and Modern State Sovereignty
Links1. "Corporate Sovereign Awakening and the making of Modern State Sovereignty: New Archival Evidence from the English East India Company," by Dr. Swati Srivastava, International Organization, March 4, 2022.2. Dr. Srivastava's webpage.

Aug 25, 2022 • 28min
Sea Control 374 - Enhancing Norwegian-USMC Cooperation with Dr. Ståle Ulriksen
Links:Building on Strength – Proposals for US-Norwegian Cooperation on the Operational and Tactical Level, by Ståle Ulriksen and Åse Gilje Østensens, Forsvarets høgskole, Concept paper series, February 2019.
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