By Walker Mills

US Navy officer Jeong Soo Kim joins the program to discuss his recent essay in USNI Proceedings, “Design the Littoral Combat Team Around Its Core Mission.” Kim argues that the Marine Corps should make new Marine Corps organizations less infantry-centric in order to optimize them for Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), and talks about the relationship between Navy and Marine Corps engineer units.

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1. “Design the Littoral Combat Team Around Its Core Mission,” by Jeong Soo Kim, USNI Proceedings, November 2021.
2. “Sacred Cows for What? Considering Force Structure Cuts to the Infantry,” by Walker Mills, CIMSEC, November 2019.
3. “Where is the NECC?” by Walker Mills, Marine Corps Gazette, December 2019.
4. “Preparing for the Future: Marine Corps Support to Joint Operations in the Contested Littorals,” by David Berger, Military Review, May 2021.
5. “Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations Handbook: Considerations for Force Development and Employment,” June 1, 2018.
6. “Tentative Manual for EABO,” US Marine Corps, 2020. 

Walker Mills is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at [email protected].

This episode was edited and produced by Marie Williams.

By Walker Mills

John Bradford and Dr. Olli Suorsa join the program to talk about their recent article in War on the Rocks, “’Lightning Carriers’ Could be Lightweights in an Asian War.” John is a is senior fellow in the Maritime Security Program at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies and a former commander in the U.S. Navy. Olli is an assistant professor at Rabdan Academy in the United Arab Emirates.

Sea Control 317 – Lightning Carriers with John Bradford and Dr. Olli Suorsa

Links

1. “‘Lightning Carriers’ Could be Lightweights in an Asian War” by Olli Suorsa and John Bradford, War on the Rocks, October 29, 2021.
2. “Italian Air Force F-35B Lands on Navy Aircraft Carrier for the First Time,” by David Cenciotti, The Aviationist, November 22, 2021.
3. “Thailand’s Maritime Strategy: National Resilience and Regional Cooperation,” by John Bradford and Wilfried A. Herrmann, The Journal of Indo-Pacific Affairs, December 13, 2021.

Walker Mills is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at [email protected].

By Walker Mills

Sea Control talks with Dr. Maurice Beseng, a researcher at Sheffield University, about his recent article in the journal African Security entitled: “The Nature and Scope of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Fisheries Crime in Cameroon: Implications for Maritime Security.” The conversation covers the links between fisheries crime and maritime security as well as the role of Chinese and foreign fishermen in the region and the potential impact of chronic fish scarcity.

Download Sea Control 308 – Maritime Security & Cameroon with Dr. Maurice Beseng

Links

1. “The Nature and Scope of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Fisheries Crime in Cameroon: Implications for Maritime Security” by Maurice Beseng, African Security, 2021.
2. Sea Control 256 – Reporting From the Sea With Ian Urbina by Walker Mills, CIMSEC, June 6, 2021
3. Dr. Beseng’s website.

Walker Mills is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at [email protected].

This episode was edited and produced by Dr. Ed Salo.

By Walker Mills

Sea Control talks with Chris Booth about his recent essays on covert maritime logistics in the Second World War, using mules for logistics, and seaplanes, which appeared in War on the Rocks, Small Wars Journal, and USNI Proceedings, respectively.

Download Sea Control 306 – Covert Logistics with Chris Booth

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