By Brian Kerg

Major Ben Van Horrick and LtCol Scott ‘Chuck’ Blyleven of the United States Marine Corps join the program to discuss the article, “Partnering Will Determine the First Days of Conflict in the Western Pacific.”

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Links

1. “Partnering Will Determine the First Days of Conflict in the Western Pacific,” by Ben Van Horrick, Proceedings, December 2024.

2. “Resolute Dragon: Reassurance, Deterrence, and a Call for Coordination,” by Bill Matory and Ben Van Horrick, War on the Rocks, December 6, 2023.

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

By Brian Kerg

Naval War College Professor of Strategy Andrew Erickson joins the program to talk about his recent book, Chinese Amphibious Warfare, the most current and authoritative assessment of PLA amphibious capabilities.

Dr. Andrew S. Erickson is Professor of Strategy (tenured full professor) in the U.S. Naval War College (NWC)’s China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI). A core founding member, he helped establish CMSI and stand it up officially in 2006, and has played an integral role in its development; from 2021–23 he served as Research Director. Erickson is currently a Visiting Scholar in full-time residence at Harvard University’s John King Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, where he has been an Associate in Research since 2008. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Institute of Maritime Policy & Strategy’s International Advisory Committee, and the Japan-America Society of Southern New England and Japan-America Navy Friendship Association (JANAFA)-Newport’s Board of Directors. Erickson serves on the editorial boards of Naval War College Review and Asia Policy and is a Contributing Editor at 19FortyFive.

Download Sea Control 578: Chinese Amphibious Warfare with Andrew Erickson

Links

1. Chinese Amphibious Warfare, edited by Andrew Erickson, et al., Naval War College, China Maritime Studies Institute, 2024.

2. China Maritime Studies Institute homepage. 

3. Dr. Andrew Erickson’s homepage.

4. “Invasion Plans: Operation Causeway and Taiwan’s Defense in World War II,” by Ian Easton, China Maritime Studies Institute, Naval War College, 2024. 

4. China’s New Navy: The Evolution of the PLAN from the People’s Revolution to a 21st Century Cold War, by Xiaobing Li, USNI Press, 2023.

5. Mao’s Army Goes to Sea, by Toshi Yoshihara, Georgetown University Press, 2023.

6. Andrew Erickson’s Twitter.

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

By J. Overton

Dr. Ben Zweibelson joins the program to talk about his new book, Reconceptualizing War.

Dr. Zweibelson has over three decades of service to the U.S. Department of Defense, retiring as an Infantry Officer with 22 years combined service, multiple combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and awarded four Bronze Stars. Author of two other books, Understanding the Military Design Movement (Routledge, 2023) and Beyond the Pale (Air University Press, 2023), Ben lectures at numerous war colleges and universities around the world. He holds a doctorate in philosophy, has three master’s degrees, and graduated U.S. Army Ranger School among numerous other demanding military courses. Ben resides in Colorado Springs with his wife and three boys.

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Links

1. Reconceptualizing War, by Ben Zweibelson, Helion & Company, 2025.

2. Understanding the Military Design Movement, by Ben Zweibelson, Routledge, 2024.

3. Beyond the Pale: Designing Military Decision-Making Anew, by Ben Zweibelson, Air University Press, 2023.

4. War Becoming Phantasmal: A Cognitive Shift in Organized Violence beyond Traditional Limits, by Ben Zweibelson, Marine Corps University Press, May 2024.

5. “Breaking the Newtonian Fetish,“ by Ben Zweibelson, Journal of Advanced Military Studies, Vol. 15. No. 1.

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

By Walker Mills

Dr. Tommy Jamison joins the program to discuss his recent article “Rescuing Heritage from Humiliation: The Navalist Reinterpretation of the Sino-French and Sino-Japanese Wars,” published in the October issue of the Journal of Military History. The conversation focuses on recent reinterpretations of the Sino-French and Sino-Japanese Wars, and what they can tell us about how the Chinese military and thinks about its own history, and why the interpretation of military history is important generally.

Dr. Tommy Jamison is a military historian and Assistant Professor of Strategic Studies in the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School. He holds a PhD from Harvard University and previously served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy. 

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Links

1. Sea Control 379: Pacific Wars 1864-1897 with Dr. Tommy Jamison

2. The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895: Perceptions, Power and Primacy, by SCM Paine, Cambridge University Press, 2002. 

3. The Pacific’s New Navies: An Ocean, It’s Wars and the Making of US Sea Power, by Tommy Jamison, Cambridge University Press, 2024. 

4. Tommy Jamison Linkedin.

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