Sea Control

The Bartlett Maritime Corporation intends to build a brand-new naval repair depot and submarine construction support facility, alongside potential repair shipyards in Lordstown and Lorain, Ohio. The ambitious project would build and use Oceangoing Transit Carriers to transport new submarine sub-modules and, eventually, complete submarines through the St. Lawrence Seaway. Host Matthew Hipple discusses the Lordstown-Lorain project w/ its entrepreneurial architect, CAPT Edward Bartlett. Relying on Ohio’s industrial revenue bond program and the Navy’s facility lease-purchase program, this public-private partnership would mobilize Unions, governments, school, and businesses across Northern Ohio. The financial mechanisms employed would eventually transfer ownership to the Navy of vital new industrial facilities and support craft deep w/in the Rust Belt, where skilled industrial labor is plentiful.

Links"Treating, Preventing, Feigning, Concealing: Sickness, Agency and the Medical Culture of the British Naval Seaman at the End of the Long Eighteenth Century," by Dr. Sara Caputo, Social History of Medicine, December 15, 2021. 

Links1. "The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway," by Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor, PublicAffairs, May 17, 2022.2. "The Importance of the Battle of Midway," by Tom Hone, War on the Rocks, September 12, 2013.3. Battle of Midway - Naval History and Heritage Command.4. Steven McGregor website.5. Brendan Simms faculty profile.

Links1. "Don't Buy Warships (Yet)," by David Alman, Proceedings, June 2022.2. Sea Control 303: The Case for Seaplanes with David Alman, CIMSEC, December 19, 2021.3. “The Navy Needs More Firepower,” by T.X. Hammes, USNI Proceedings, January 20214. “From Sea to Sky,” by David Alman, CIMSEC December 10, 2019.5. Sea Control 219: USCG Commandant Admiral Karl Schultz, CIMSEC, December 27, 2020.6. “DARPA Unveils Liberty Lifter Seaplane Concept,” Naval News, May 19, 2022.

To celebrate 200 episodes since our relaunch, we watched Top Gun: Maverick!! I'm joined by TOPGUN grad Graham Scarbro and retired Naval Aviatrix and Public Affairs Officer Sarah Higgins to capture all of our reactions to seeing Maverick on the Big Screen again 35 years later. Spoilers ahead!

Links:1. One Team, One Playground, Various Players: Maritime Security Approaches of European NATO Members, by Dr. Antoni Pienkos and Julian Pawlak, Fundacja im. Kazimierza Pułaskiego , 2022.2. National Security Strategy of the Republic of Poland 2020. 3. Poland's  Strategic Concept for Maritime Security (2017)4. The Defence Concept of the Republic of Poland, May 2017.  

Links1. Taiwan, Cross-strait Stability and European Security: Implications and Response Options, by Henry Boyd, Franz-Stefan Gady, Oskar Glaese, Meia Nouwens and Benjamin Schreer, International Institute for Strategic Studies, March 2022. 2. Sounds Strategic Podcast

Links:1. Rolling the Iron Dice: From Analytical Wargaming to the Cycle of Research, by Peter Perla, Web Ewell, Christopher Ma, Justin Peachey, Jeremy Sepinsky & Basil Tripsas, War on the Rocks, October 21, 2019. 2. Revitalizing Wargaming is Necessary to be Prepared for Future Wars, by Robert Work & Gen. Paul Selva, War on the Rocks, Dec. 8, 2015. 

Links1. "A New Framework for Understanding Chinese Gray Zone Tactics," by Bonny Lin, Cristina Garafola, et al. RAND Corporation, 2022. 2. "Gaining Competitive Advantage in the Gray Zone," by Lyle Morris, Michael Mazarr, et al. RAND Corporation, 2019.3. "Competing in the Gray Zone: Russian Tactics and Western Responses," by Stacie Pettyjohn and Becca Wasser, RAND Corporation, 2019. 4. CMSI China Maritime Report #1: "China's Third Sea Force, The People's Armed Forces Militia: Tethered to the PLA," by  Conor Kennedy and Andrew Erickson, U.S. Naval War College China Maritime Studies Institute, March 24, 2017. 5. Cristinagarafola.com.

Links: 1. Reconsidering Russian Maritime Warfare by Dr. Michael B. Peterson, CIMSEC, April 11, 2022.2. Russia Maritime Studies Institute