By Jared Samuelson

Alexander Powell joins the program to discuss the potential uses for maritime sabotage in a great power conflict. Alexander is an expert on SOF, terrorist group tactics, and counterterrorism. He has worked extensively on security issues in Afghanistan.

Download Sea Control 363 – Maritime Sabotage in Great Power Competition with Alexander Powell

Links

1. “A Blast from the Past? The Role of Maritime Sabotage in Strategic Competition,” by Alexander Powell, Modern War Institute, February 3, 2022.
2. “Frogmen Solve Hard Problems – From and on the Sea,” by Rear Admiral H.W. Howard III, USNI Proceedings, April 2022.
3. “Maritime Sabotage: Lessons Learned and Implications for Strategic Competition,” by Alexander Powell, Elizabeth Yang, Annaleah Westerhaug, and Kaia Haney, CNA, October 2021.

Jared Samuelson is Co-Host and Executive Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at [email protected].

This episode was edited and produced by William McQuiston.

By Jared Samuelson

Sea Control co-host Walker Mills and Tim Heck join the podcast to discuss early amphibious lessons learned from Ukraine. 

Walker mills is a Marine infantry officer currently serving as an exchange officer at the Colombian Naval Academy in Cartagena, Colombia. He is also a nonresident fellow at the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation and Modern War and a nonresident fellow with the Irregular Warfare Initiative. Tim Heck is the deputy editorial director of the Modern War Institute at West Point. He is an artillery officer in the US Marine Corps Reserve, currently assigned as a joint historian with Marine Corps History Division. He holds a BA in American Studies from Georgetown University and an MA in War in the Modern World from King’s College London. He is coeditor of On Contested Shores: The Evolving Role of Amphibious Operations in the History of Warfare.

Download Sea Control 362 – Amphibious Lessons Learned from Ukraine with Tim Heck & Walker Mills

Links

“What can we learn about amphibious warfare from a conflict that has had very little of it? A lot,” by Walker Mills and Timothy Heck, Modern War Institute, April 22, 2022.

Jared Samuelson is Co-host and Executive Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at [email protected].

This episode was edited and produced by Alexia Bouallagui.

By Jared Samuelson

Blake Herzinger and Gerry Doyle join the program to discuss their new book on the Chinese arsenal, Carrier Killer: China’s Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles and Theater of Operations in the early 21st Century. Blake is a Pacific Forum Non-resident WSD-Handa fellow and a U.S. Navy Reserve officer. He has spent 13 years in service with the U.S. Navy as an intelligence officer, with experience across the Indo-Pacific and Middle East. Gerry is an editor on the Global News Desk at Thomson Reuters. He has been posted overseas for 13 years, 10 of them in Asia, with a recurring focus on defense and security.

Download Sea Control 361 – Carrier Killers with Gerry Doyle and Blake Herzinger

Links

Carrier Killer: China’s Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles and Theater of Operations in the early 21st Century, by Gerry Doyle and Blake Herzinger, Helion, 2022. 

Jared Samuelson is Co-Host and Executive Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at [email protected].

This episode was edited and produced by David Suchyta.

By Jared Samuelson

Stable Seas’ Jay Benson joins Sea Control to discuss his most recent report on maritime radiological and nuclear trafficking. Jay’s focus areas include the Indo-Pacific, maritime domain awareness and violent extremists operating in the maritime domain.

Download Sea Control 359 – Maritime Radiological and Nuclear Trafficking with Jay Benson

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This episode was edited and produced by Jonathan Selling.