By Jared Samuelson

Navy Pier, Midway and O’Hare airports, the U.S. Navy’s Recruit Training Command, the Illinois Naval Militia (of captured Spanish ships!), paddlewheel aircraft carriers and more! New CIMSEC Chicago Chapter President Akshat Patel and Dr. Ted Karamanski join the program to discuss the new Chicago CIMSEC chapter and the city’s incredible maritime history.

Download Sea Control 187 – Why Chicago with Akshat Patel and Dr. Ted Karamanski

Links

1. Mastering the Inland Sea
2. Chicago Maritime Museum
3. Chicago Maritime Museum Recovery Fund

Jared Samuelson is the Senior Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at [email protected].

By Jared Samuelson

On the heels of the Grant miniseries, Dr. Anne Brinton joins the program to revisit some Civil War Naval Integration (TM) in the Western Theater: The Battle for Island Number 10! Dr. Brinton discusses time, space, and force, the composition of the river fleet, Commodore Andrew Foote, Commander Henry Walke, and the dramatic exploits of USS Carondelet.

Download Sea Control 186 – The Battle for Island Number 10 with Dr. Anne Brinton

Jared Samuelson is the Senior Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at [email protected].

By Jared Samuelson

Brute Krulak Center for Creativity and Innovation Director Valerie Jackson and Dr. Heather Venable join me to discuss the lessons learned from CIMSEC’s Project Trident Chokepoints and Littorals Week! We’ll be discussing whether chokepoints are still relevant, mine warfare, chokepoints as a temporal phenomenon, and the importance of presence.

Download Sea Control 184 – Chokepoints and Littorals with Dr. Heather Venable and Director Valerie Jackson

Links

Chokepoints and Littorals Topic Week

By Jared Samuelson

Historians Keith Bird and Jason Hines join the program to discuss the development of wireless telegraphy on warships, British use of wireless command-and-control, the oft-neglected German naval intelligence failures in the First World War, and the encryption war at sea, all part of their award-winning 2018 paper, In the Shadow of Ultra: A Reappraisal of German Naval Communications Intelligence in 1914-1918.

Download Sea Control 182 – In the Shadows of Ultra with Keith Bird and Jason Hines

Links

8. The Ultra Secret, by Frederick William Winterbotham, Harper & Row, 1974