Podcast Episodes

Sea Control 597: Iran Escalation Scenario

Episode 598

Ross Hill is the founder and CEO of Insight Forward (IF), a Geopolitical Risk Intelligence advisory service specializing in corporate intelligence. H…

3 hours ago

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Sea Control 596: The Last Navigator with Steve Thomas

Episode 597

Links: 

Steve’s website 

“The Last Navigator: A Young Man, and Ancient Mariner, the Secrets of the Sea” 

The Last Navigator documentary

Steve’s lecture a…

3 weeks, 6 days ago

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Sea Control 595: China's Command Revolution with Elsa Kania

Episode 595

Links

1. Elsa Kania's LinkedIn profile.

1 month, 1 week ago

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Sea Control: 594: From Hulls to Pods with Emma Salisbury

Episode 594

Links

1."The Trump-class Battleship: Spectacle Wins Out over Combat Power," by Emma Salisbury, Foreign Policy Research Institute, January 8, 2026.

2. "…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

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Sea Control: 593 Information and Warfighting with General Robert Neller

Episode 593

Links

1. "For 250 years, it’s been ‘change or lose’ for our military. Here’s what needs changing now," by Robert Neller and Peter Singer, Defense One,…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Sea Control 592: The US Coast Guard in the Aleutian Islands with Steven Hulse

Episode 592

Links

1. “Bases on the Aleutians Islands Would Project Power Across the Pacific,” by Steven Hulse, Proceedings, January 2025. 

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Sea Control 591: Maritime Statecraft and Its Future with Steve Brock and Hunter Stires

Episode 591

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 Ma…

3 months ago

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Sea Control 590: Drone Carriers and Salvo Equations with Colton Byers

Episode 590

Links

“Carrier 2.0: The Drone Carrier Revolution,” by Colton Byers, War Quants, December 28, 2024. 

“Damn the Torpedoes: The Return of Naval Mining,” b…

3 months, 1 week ago

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Sea Control 589: Non-state Special Operations with Craig Whiteside

Episode 589

Links

1. Non-state Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects, Ian Rice and Craig Whiteside, Routledge, 2025.

2. The Isis Reader Substack.

3. @CraigAW…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Sea Control 588: Outsourcing Security at Sea with Pieter Zhao

Episode 588

1. "Outsourcing Security at Sea—The Return of Private Maritime-Security Companies and Their Role in Twenty-First-Century Maritime Security," by Piete…

4 months, 1 week ago

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