By Brian Kerg

Brian Kerg, one of Sea Control’s new co-hosts, makes his debut. Here he interviews Major Zachary Schwartz of the U.S. Marine Corps about his new article, “Infantry Battalions as Sensor Webs for the Fleet.”

Download Sea Control 555 – Infantry Battalions as Sensor Webs for the Fleet with Zachary Stewart

Links

1. “Infantry Battalions as Sensor Webs for the Fleet,” by Major Zachary Schwartz, Proceedings, September 2024.

2. The Connecting File website.

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

By Jared Samuelson

Dr. Nuno Vila-Santa joins Jared to discuss his book, Knowledge Exchanges Between Portugal and Europe: Maritime Diplomacy, Espionage, and Nautical Science in the Early Modern World (15th-17th Centuries). Nuno is a researcher at CIUHCT (Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon) and correspondent researcher at CHAM (FCSH-UNL/UAÇ – Lisbon, Portugal) and the Portuguese Navy Academy.

Download Sea Control 554 – Maritime Diplomacy, Espionage, and Nautical Science in the 15th-17th Centuries with Dr. Nuno Vila-Santa

Links

1. “Knowledge Exchanges Between Portugal and Europe: Maritime Diplomacy, Espionage, and Nautical Science in the Early Modern World (15th-17th Centuries),” by Nuno Vila-Santa, Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 

Jared Samuelson is Co-Host and Executive Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

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By Jonathan Selling

The recent announcement that the United Kingdom will be returning Diego Garcia and the rest of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius brought to an end this long-running dispute. Nitya Labh joins the program to discuss the dispute over the Chagos Islands and the benefit to the UK and US for its return to Mauritius. Nitya Labh is a former James C. Gaither fellow for the South Asia Program and Tata Chair for strategic affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is an incoming Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Download Sea Control 552 – Diego Garcia with Nitya Labh

Links

1. “Why Diego Garcia Matters,” by Nitya Labh, Foreign Policy, May 30, 2024.

Jonathan Selling is co-host and executive producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.