By Walker Mills

Capt. Joshua Taylor, USN, and Scott Humphrey, a Colonel in the Air National Guard, join the program to talk about their recent essay “Citizen Sailors: The Missing link in Maritime Force Structure.” They discuss the history of maritime militia in the United States, the potential for a new maritime militia, and challenges to its recreation. 

Captain Joshua Taylor is an Indo-Pacific foreign area officer currently serving as a military faculty member at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. Colonel Scott Humphrey, ANG, is a master air battle manager currently serving as chief of international affairs for the National Guard Bureau.

Download Sea Control 497 – Citizen Sailors with Joshua Taylor and Scott Humphrey

Links

1. “Citizen Sailors: The Missing link in Maritime Force Structure,” by Joshua Taylor and Scott Humphrey, War on the Rocks, November 15, 2023. 

2. “The U.S. Navy Needs Its Own Bonds to Be Ready for China,” by Joshua Taylor, Foreign Policy, November 5, 2021. 

Walker Mills is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast and a Senior Editor for CIMSEC. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

This episode was edited and produced by Jim Jarvie.

By Jared Samuelson

CAPT Benjamin “BJ” Armstrong joins the program to discuss naval presence and the U.S. Navy in the interwar period. CAPT Benjamin “BJ” Armstrong, USN, is a former search and rescue helicopter pilot and associate professor of war studies and naval history at the U.S. Naval Academy.

Download Sea Control 496 – Naval Presence and the Interwar US Navy with BJ Armstrong

Links

1.  Naval Presence and the Interwar US Navy and Marine Corps, Forward Deployment, Crisis Response, and the Tyranny of History, by Benjamin Armstrong, Routledge, 2024.

2. Sea Control 239 – Things Done By Halves with Dr. BJ Armstrong, CIMSEC, April 11, 2021. 

3. Sea Control 311  – Developing the Naval Mind with BJ Armstrong and John Freymann, CIMSEC, January 20, 2022. 

4. Sea Control 209 – Learning War with Trent Hone and Sebastian Goldstein, CIMSEC, November 1, 2020. 

5. Military Innovation in the Interwar Period, by William Murray and Allan Reed Millett (eds), Cambridge University Press, August 13, 1998.

Jared Samuelson is Co-Host and Executive Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

This episode was edited and produced by Andrew Frame.

By Walker Mills

Aaron Delano-Johnson joins the program to discuss how to apply lessons from counternarcotics operations to combating IUU fishing. Aaron is a Captain in the U.S. Coast Guard.

Download Sea Control 495 – Cocaine Codfish with Aaron Delano-Johnson

Links

1. “Cocaine Codfish: How the War on Drugs Can Inform the Fight Against Illegal Fishing,” by Aaron Delano-Johnson, War on the Rocks, October 16, 2023.

2. “A Plan to Push Back Against China’s Fishing Practices,” by Aaron Delano-Johnson and Chris Bernotavicus, War on the Rocks, December 2, 2022. 

3. Sea Control 219: USCG Commandant Admiral Karl Schultz, by Walker Mills, CIMSEC, December 27, 2020. 

4. Sea Control 256: Reporting From the Sea With Ian Urbina, by Walker Mills, CIMSEC, June 6, 2021. 

5. The Outlaw Ocean Project.

6. “Memorandum on Combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Associated Labor Abuses,” The White House, June 27, 2022. 

7. “Future IUU Fishing Trends in a Warming World: A global Horizon Scan,” by Lauren Young, Cathy Haenlein and Grace Evans, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), March 1, 2023.

8. “Move the IUU Fight Up the Food Chain,” by Conor Sullivan, USNI Proceedings, November 2023.

Walker Mills is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast and a Senior Editor for CIMSEC. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

This episode was edited and produced by Addison Pellerano.

By Anna McNiel

Dr. John Sherwood joins the program to discuss his latest book, A Global Force for Good: Sea Services Humanitarian Operations in the Twenty-First Century, about the sea services’ response to various humanitarian operations in the 21st century. John has served as a historian at Naval History and Heritage Command since 1997.

Download Sea Control 494 – Global Force for Good with Dr. John Sherwood

Links

This episode was edited and produced by Jonathan Selling.