Podcast Episodes

Sea Control 589: Non-state Special Operations

Episode 589

Dr. Craig Whiteside is Professor of National Security Affairs at the US Naval War College resident program at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California.  He is a research fellow at George W…

Published on 12 hours ago

Sea Control 588: Outsourcing Security at Sea

Episode 588

Links:

 Outsourcing Security at Sea—The Return of Private Maritime-Security Companies and Their Role in Twenty-First-Century Maritime Security, Naval War College Review 

Irregular Warfare Initiative

Pie…

Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago

Sea Control 587: 20 Years Past the military response to Hurricane Katrina

Episode 587

Guest bio: Elaine Helm is communications professional and former journalist who lives and works in the Seattle area. She was the military reporter for the Kitsap Sun and the founder and editor of the…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Sea Control 586: What Moral Leadership Looks Like with William Spears

Episode 586

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, 2…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

Sea Control 585: Imperial Germany and China’s Basing Ambitions with Chuck Ridgway

Episode 585

Links

1. "What Imperial Germany Teaches About China’s Naval Basing Ambitions," by Chuck Ridgway, Proceedings, May 2025.

Published on 2 months ago

Sea Control 584: Wargaming in the Pacific with Chris Denzel and Sebastian Bae

Episode 584

Links

1. Sebastian Bae Twitter.

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

Sea Control 583: Shaping the Blue Dragon with Ronald Po

Episode 583

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…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

Sea Control 582: Guns, Ships and Money.

Episode 582

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 hi…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Sea Control 581: The MLR's Missing Link

Episode 581

The Marine Littoral Regiment's Missing Link

Published on 4 months ago

Sea Control 580: Building Resilient Kill Chains

Episode 580

Building Resilient Kill Chains for the Stand in Force

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago