Category Archives: Podcast

Main podcast series of CIMSEC.

Sea Control 381 – How to Win Friends & Influence Shipbuilding with Eric Hovey

By Jared Samuelson

Eric Hovey, fresh off a tour at Naval Sea Systems Command, joins the podcast to discuss his recent article on the U.S. amphibious shipbuilding ecosystem.

Eric Hovey is a Marine Corps Intelligence Officer and Defense Acquisition Corps Member. He previously served as Marine Liaison to the Amphibious Assault and Connectors Program Office (PMS 317) within Naval Sea Systems Command and is currently a student at the Joint Military Attaché School in Washington, DC.

Sea Control 381 – How to Win Friends & Influence Shipbuilding with Eric Hovey

Links

1. “How to Win Friends and Influence Shipbuilding. Marine Corps modernization and the amphibious Navy,” by Maj Eric S. Hovey, Marine Corps Gazette, June 2022. 

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

This episode was edited and produced by Nathan Miller.

Sea Control 379 – Pacific Wars, 1864-1897, and the Making of the U.S. Navy with Dr. Tommy Jamison

By Walker Mills

Dr. Tommy Jamison, an assistant professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, joins the program to discuss his doctoral dissertation “Pacific Wars: Peripheral Conflict and the Making of the US New Navy, 1864-1897.” Dr. Jamison covers the overlooked role of Pacific navies on the development of the United States Navy.

Download Sea Control 379 – Pacific Wars 1864-1897 with Dr. Tommy Jamison

Links

1. “Pacific Wars: Peripheral Conflict and the Making of the US New Navy, 1864-1897,” by Tommy Jamison, Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 2020.
2. “Looks Like a Chilean War:” The Baltimore Incident as a Counterfactual Exercise,” by Tommy Jamison, CIMSEC October 22, 2015.
3. Sea Control 239: “Things Done By Halves” with Dr. BJ Armstrong, CIMSEC, April 11, 2021. 

Walker Mills is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast and a Senior Editor for CIMSEC. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

This episode was edited and produced by Marie Williams.

Sea Control 378 – Victory at Sea with Dr. Paul Kennedy

By Dr. Edward Salo

Dr. Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Founding Director of International Security Studies at Yale University, joins the program to discuss his new book, Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II. Dr. Kennedy examines six major navies of the Second World War, including the allied navies of Britain, France, and the United States, and the Axis navies of Germany, Italy, and Japan. He shows how the strategic landscape for naval affairs was completely altered between 1936 and 1946 with the U.S. Navy emerging as the most powerful naval force in history. The book is also illustrated with paintings by Ian Marshall.

Download Sea Control 378 – Victory at Sea with Dr. Paul Kennedy

Links

1. “Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II,”  by Paul Kennedy, Yale University Press, 2022.
2.Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, Yale University.
3. “The Navy Made America a Superpower Once. Can It Again?,”  by Alexander Wooley, Foreign Policy, May 20, 2022.
4. “A marriage of the geopolitical, the military and the material — Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II by Paul Kennedy review,” by Lincoln Paine, Englesberg Ideas, June 17, 2022.

Ed Salo is Co-Host and a producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

This episode was edited and produced by Nathan Miller.

Sea Control 377 – Intelligence Analysis and Analytic Reflection with Dr. Brian Holmes

By Anna McNeil

Dr. Brian Holmes joins us to discuss his several series of articles on intelligence analysis, particularly “Analytic Reflection: Measuring the Attributes of Open and All-Source Intelligence.”

Dr. Holmes is the National Intelligence Officer for Emerging and Disruptive Technologies. He has previously served in the U.S. Navy as a Reserve Officer, and has a distinguished career in strategic intelligence and academia.

Sea Control 377 – Intelligence Analysis and Analytic Reflection with Dr. Brian Holmes

Links

1. “Analytic Reflection: Measuring the Attributes of Open and All-Source Intelligence,” by Brian Holmes, Homeland Security Today, June 8, 2020.
2. “Feedback Driven Decisions and the Evolution of Intelligence Analysis in the United States,” by Brian Holmes, The Strategy Bridge, January 23, 2020.
3. “A Short History of Maritime Intelligence Integration,” by Dr. Brian Holmes, NMIO Technical Bulletin, March 2019, p. 4-5.
4. Brian Holmes, Author at Hstoday.

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

This episode was edited and produced by Nathan Miller.