By Jared Samuelson

A two-parter! Maj. Jon Frerichs (@hoplitemarine) was one of my first interview subjects after he wrote an article for Marine Corps Gazette entitled “Reinvigorating the Fleet Marine Force.” During the interview, he mentioned he had a second piece in-progress with War On The Rocks. We managed to corral one of his co-authors for that article, Maj. Mark Nostro, to discuss “To Be Most Ready When the Nation Is Least Ready, the Marines Need a New Headquarters.” Tune in to hear Jon name-check multiple doctrinal publications from memory while proposing some radical changes to the structure of the Marine Corps structure. If you’d like to skip forward to the second interview, it kicks off at 20:05. Enjoy!

Download Sea Control 162 – Redesigning the Marine Corps with Jon Frerichs and Mark Nostro

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4. To Be Most Ready When the Nation is Least Ready, the Marines Need a New Headquarters

By Jared Samuelson

Dr. John Cordle joins Jared (@jwsc03) to discuss Navy culture, fatigue (mostly) in the surface force, and possible solutions on episode 161 of CIMSEC’s Sea Control!

Fatigue is the Navy’s Black Lung Disease by Dr. John Cordle

Naval Postgraduate School Crew Endurance

By Jared Samuelson

The Australian Army’s Von Lambert and USMC’s Tyler Quinn (@tc_quinn07) discuss their January article for War on the Rocks, to include what they learned about themselves, the value of experiential learning, and what it is like to transition from a lifetime of real-life COIN operations to confronting a peer competitor in the Marines’ competitive wargaming tournament, Exercise Sea Dragon.

Sea Control 160 – Exercise Sea Dragon with Von Lambert and Tyler Quinn

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By Jared Samuelson

Legendary merchant marine scholar Dr. Sal Mercogliano (@mercoglianos) joins Jared Samuelson (@jwsc03) to discuss the state of the U.S. merchant marine, make historical comparisons to the pre-World War I fleet, and discuss last year’s Turbo Activation Exercise and Defender 2020. Also, my daughter makes an appearance shrieking in the background: SHE DOESN’T LIKE BEANS!

Download Sea Control 159 – All Things Merchant Marine with Dr. Sal Mercogliano

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The Collected Works of Dr. Sal Mercogliano

“To be a Modern Maritime Power,” USNI Proceedings, August 2019.

“Suppose There Was a War and the Merchant Marine Didn’t Come?” USNI Proceedings, January 2020. CNO Naval History Essay Contest Second Prize, Professional Historian Category.

“A Century of the Jones Act,” Sea History.

“‘We Built Her to Bring Them Over There’: The Cruiser and Transport Force in the Great War,” Sea History.

“The Shipping Act of 1916 and Emergency Fleet Corporation: America Builds, Requisitions, and Seizes a Merchant Fleet Second to None.”

The Fourth Arm of Defense: Sealift and Maritime Logistics in the Vietnam War. Naval History and Heritage Command, 2017.

“Op-Ed: the Merchant Marine, America’s fourth arm of defense,” Navy Times, May 14, 2019. 

“Turbo Activation – A Sealift Surge, or just a Trickle?” gCaptain, December 31, 2019. 

“Why the United States Needs a Merchant Marine – A Historical Basis,” gCaptain, October 23, 2018.

“Space Force, How About a Maritime Force?” gCaptain, July 27, 2018. 

Jared Samuelson is the Senior Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.