By Jared Samuelson

Former Pacific Fleet commander Admiral Scott Swift (ret.) joins us to discuss wartime command and control in the War of 2026 scenario. Admiral Swift commanded the U.S. Pacific Fleet from 2015 to 2018. In 2023, he served as a senior mentor for the Navy’s Large Scale Exercise and the Global wargame at the Naval War College.

Download Sea Control 502 – Wartime Command and Control with Admiral Scott Swift (ret.)

Links

1. “Wartime Command and Control,” by Admiral Scott Swift (ret.), Proceedings, January 2024.

2. Sea Control 254 – Defining Readiness with Admiral Scott Swift (ret.), CIMSEC, May 28, 2021.

3. “Admiral Scott Swift on Leadership, Risk, and a Life in the U.S. Navy,” by Christopher Nelson, CIMSEC, August 14, 2017.

4. The American Sea Power Project.

5. “To deter China, the US and Taiwan should seek asymmetric symmetry,” by Admiral Scott Swift (ret.) Heino Klinck, Defense News, January 25, 2024. 

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 Jim Jarvie.

By Jared Samuelson

Zach Ota comes aboard to discuss maritime security approaches in Oceania. Zach is a Marine Corps infantry officer and a Southeast Asia Regional Affairs Officer.

Download Sea Control 501 – Multilateral Approaches to Maritime Security in Oceania with Zach Ota

Links

1. 21st Century as the Pacific Century – Culture and Security of Oceania States in Great Power Competition, edited by Joanna Siekiera, University of Warsaw Press, 2023. 

2. Sea Control 255 – Littoral Access Companies with Zach Ota, CIMSEC, June 3, 2021. 

3. Sea Control 304 -France in the Pacific, CIMSEC, December 23, 2021.

4. Sea Control 333 – CRIMARIO: France, the EU and the Indo-Pacific, CIMSEC, April 3, 2022. 

5. Island Soldier.

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 Addison Pellerano.

By Jared Samuelson

Dr. Katrina Ponti joins us to discuss US Navy diplomacy in South America. Her work appeared in the larger volume, Seapower by Other Means. Katrina is an Ernest May Postdoctoral Fellow at the Belfer Center’s International Security Program and Applied History Project.

Download Sea Control 499 – The U.S. Navy and Diplomacy in South America with Dr. Katrina Ponti

Links

1.  Seapower by Other Means, edited by J. Overton, ISPK Seapower Series, 2023. 

2. Sea Control 487 – Naval Exploration and Global Empire with Dr. Michael Verney, CIMSEC, December 28, 2023. 

3. Dr. Katrina Ponti.

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 Nate Miller.

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.