By Walker Mills

Dr. Frank Blazich, a curator of modern military history at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and a Colonel in the Civil Air Patrol, joins the program to discuss his book “An Honorable Place in American Air Power:” Civil Air Patrol Operations, 1942-1943. In his book, Dr. Blazich covers the founding of the Civil Air Patrol and its maritime missions. Dr. Blazich also shares observations about how this history provides lessons for the present and how the Civil Air Patrol might be better employed today.

Sea Control 482 – “An Honorable Place in American Air Power”: Civil Air Patrol Operations, 1942-1943 with Dr. Frank Blazich

Links

1. An Honorable Place in American Air Power:” Civil Air Patrol Operations, 1942-1943 by Frank Blazich, Air University Press, 2020.

2. Civil Air Patrol Air Force Auxiliary website.

Walker Mills is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

Brendan Costello edited and produced this episode.

By Walker Mills

The program is joined by Dr. Toshi Yoshihara, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, and an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University. He discusses his latest book, Mao’s Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China’s Navy. He is also the co-author of Red Star Over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy.

Download Sea Control 475 – Island Campaigns and the Founding of the PLA Navy with Dr. Toshi Yoshihara

Links

1. Red Star Over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy, second edition, by Toshi Yoshihara and James Holmes, USNI Books, 2018. 

2. Mao’s Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China’s Navy, by Toshi Yoshihara, Georgetown University Press, 2022. 

3. “China’s Lessons from the Pacific War and Implications for Future Warfighting,” by Toshi Yoshihara, CIMSEC, March 22, 2023. 

4. “China as a Composite Land-Sea Power: A Geostrategic Concept Revisited,” by Toshi Yoshihara, CIMSEC, January 6, 2021.

5. “How China has Overtaken Japan in Naval Power and Why It Matters,” by Toshi Yoshihara, CIMSEC, June 22, 2020.

6. “Assessing the Military Balance in the Western Pacific with Dr. Toshi Yoshihara,” by Cris Lee, CIMSEC, November 5, 2018.

7. Sea Control 288: Chinese Civilian Shipping and the Threat to Taiwan with Tom Shugart, CIMSEC, October 28, 2021. 

Walker Mills is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

This episode was edited and produced by Brian Kurukulasuriya.

By Walker Mills

Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider joins the program to discuss her recent article “Looking Back to Look Forward: Autonomous Systems, Military Revolutions, and the Importance of Cost.” The conversation covers unmanned systems, military revolutions, and the role of unmanned technology in future conflict.

Dr. Schneider is a Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution and an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation, both at Stanford University.

Download Sea Control 450 – Autonomous Systems and Military Revolutions with Dr. Jacquelyn Schneider

Links

1. “Looking Back to Look Forward: Autonomous Systems, Military Revolutions, and the Importance of Cost,” by Jacquelyn Schneider and Julia McDonald, Journal of Strategic Studies, January 24, 2023.
2. “Does Technology Win Wars?” by Jacquelyn Schneider, Foreign Affairs, March 3, 2023.

Walker Mills is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

This episode was edited and produced by William McQuiston.

By Walker Mills

Guest David Alman rejoins the program to discuss his article in War on the Rocks, “Sustainable Aviation Fuel: Investing in the Future.” David argues that the time is right for the Department of Defense to invest in sustainable aviation fuel and to benefit from tactical, operational, strategic and financial benefits. David is an officer and pilot in the Air National Guard.

Download Sea Control 449 – Sustainable Aviation Fuel with David Alman

Links

1. “Sustainable Aviation Fuel: Investing In the Future,” by David Alman, War on the Rocks, October 25, 2022.
2. “Sea Control 394: Powering EABO,” with Walker Mills and Erik Limpaecher, CIMSEC, December 4, 2022.
3. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power, by Daniel Yergin, Free Press, 2008.
4. Oil & War: How the Deadly Struggle for Fuel in World War II Meant Victory or Defeat, by Robert Gorlaski and Russel W. Freeburg, Marine Corps University Press, 2021.
5. “The Promise of Hydrogen: An Alternative Fuel at the Intersection of Climate Policy and Lethality,” by Walker Mills and Erik Limpaecher, Modern War Institute, December 27, 2021.
6. “Need Fuel? Marines Should Make Moonshine Hydrogen,” by Walker Mills and Erik Limpaecher, USNI Proceedings, November 2021.

Walker Mills is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

This episode was edited and produced by Joshua Groover.