Sea Control

By CIMSEC Podcasting TeamEducation Government History

Sea Control episodes

November 20, 2025 Sea Control 590: Drone Carriers and Salvo Equations with Colton Byers
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.
35 min
November 07, 2025 Sea Control 589: Non-state Special Operations with Craig Whiteside
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.
43 min
October 21, 2025 Sea Control 588: Outsourcing Security at Sea with Pieter Zhao
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.
32 min
September 27, 2025 Sea Control 587: 20 Years After the Military Response to Hurricane Katrina
Links
1. Elaine Helm Linkedin.
31 min
September 16, 2025 Sea Control 586: What Moral Leadership Looks Like with William Spears
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.
40 min
September 06, 2025 Sea Control 585: Imperial Germany and China’s Basing Ambitions with Chuck Ridgway
Links
1. "What Imperial Germany Teaches About China’s Naval Basing Ambitions," by Chuck Ridgway, Proceedings, May 2025.
29 min
August 15, 2025 Sea Control 584: Wargaming in the Pacific with Chris Denzel and Sebastian Bae
Links
1. Sebastian Bae Twitter.
56 min
July 23, 2025 Sea Control 583: Shaping the Blue Dragon with Ronald Po
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
28 min
July 13, 2025 Sea Control 582: Guns, Ships and Money.
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
28 min
July 05, 2025 Sea Control 581: The MLR's Missing Link
The Marine Littoral Regiment's Missing Link
42 min