Episodes

  • Sea Control 584: Wargaming in the Pacific with Chris Denzel and Sebastian Bae
    Aug 15 2025

    Links

    1. Sebastian Bae Twitter.

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    55 mins
  • Sea Control 583: Shaping the Blue Dragon with Ronald Po
    Jul 23 2025

    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

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    28 mins
  • Sea Control 582: Guns, Ships and Money.
    Jul 13 2025

    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

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    28 mins
  • Sea Control 581: The MLR's Missing Link
    Jul 5 2025

    The Marine Littoral Regiment's Missing Link

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    42 mins
  • Sea Control 580: Building Resilient Kill Chains
    Jun 27 2025

    Building Resilient Kill Chains for the Stand in Force

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    45 mins
  • Sea Control 579: Partnering for Conflict in the Western Pacific
    Jun 17 2025

    Links

    1. "Partnering Will Determine the First Days of Conflict in the Western Pacific," by Ben Van Horrick, Proceedings, December 2024.

    2. "Resolute Dragon: Reassurance, Deterrence, and a Call for Coordination," by Bill Matory and Ben Van Horrick, War on the Rocks, December 6, 2023.

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    21 mins
  • Sea Control 578: Chinese Amphibious Warfare with Andrew Erickson
    Jun 12 2025

    Links

    1. Chinese Amphibious Warfare, edited by Andrew Erickson, et al., Naval War College, China Maritime Studies Institute, 2024.

    2. China Maritime Studies Institute homepage.

    3. Dr. Andrew Erickson's homepage.

    4. "Invasion Plans: Operation Causeway and Taiwan’s Defense in World War II," by Ian Easton, China Maritime Studies Institute, Naval War College, 2024.

    4. China's New Navy: The Evolution of the PLAN from the People's Revolution to a 21st Century Cold War, by Xiaobing Li, USNI Press, 2023.

    5. Mao's Army Goes to Sea, by Toshi Yoshihara, Georgetown University Press, 2023.

    6. Andrew Erickson's Twitter.

    Dr. Andrew S. Erickson is Professor of Strategy (tenured full professor) in the U.S. Naval War College (NWC)’s China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI). A core founding member, he helped establish CMSI and stand it up officially in 2006, and has played an integral role in its development; from 2021–23 he served as Research Director. Erickson is currently a Visiting Scholar in full-time residence at Harvard University’s John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, where he has been an Associate in Research since 2008. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Institute of Maritime Policy & Strategy’s International Advisory Committee, and the Japan-America Society of Southern New England and Japan-America Navy Friendship Association (JANAFA)-Newport’s Board of Directors. Erickson serves on the editorial boards of Naval War College Review and Asia Policy and is a Contributing Editor at 19FortyFive.

    Twitter

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Sea Control 577: Reconceptualizing War with Ben Zweibelson
    Jun 10 2025

    Links

    1. Reconceptualizing War, by Ben Zweibelson, Helion & Company, 2025.

    2. Understanding the Military Design Movement, by Ben Zweibelson, Routledge, 2024.

    3. Beyond the Pale: Designing Military Decision-Making Anew, by Ben Zweibelson, Air University Press, 2023.

    4. War Becoming Phantasmal: A Cognitive Shift in Organized Violence beyond Traditional Limits, by Ben Zweibelson, Marine Corps University Press, May 2024.

    5. "Breaking the Newtonian Fetish," by Ben Zweibelson, Journal of Advanced Military Studies, Vol. 15. No. 1.

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    48 mins