By Jared Samuelson

Bryan Clark and Bryan McGrath join the program to explain their latest idea for changing the Navy’s force generation model, getting carrier air wings to operate as a system, required shoreside infrastructure, and more.

Download Sea Control 272 – Changing the Navy’s Force Generation Model with Bryan Clark and Bryan McGrath

Links

1. “Disrupt the Navy’s Operational Model to Counter China,” by Bryan Clark & Bryan McGrath, CDRSalamander, Aug 11, 2021.
2. “Restoring American Seapower – A New Fleet Architecture for the United States Navy,” by Bryan Clark, Bryan McGrath et al., Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, 2017.
3. “American Seapower at a Crossroads: A Plan to Restore the US Navy’s Maritime Advantage,“ by Bryan Clark, Timothy Walton, and Seth Cropsey, Hudson Institute, Sep 29, 2020.

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

By Jared Samuelson

We have a great team at Sea Control and the bench is deep! How deep? So deep we have a Ph.D as our senior serving editor and Dr. Ed Salo is on the podcast today to discuss his thesis on the ferry’s role in South Carolina’s development. We hope you enjoy, and feel free reach out to Ed if you want to read his work!

Download Sea Control 270 – The Ferry’s Role in South Carolina’s Development with Ed Salo

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

By Jared Samuelson

While busy dramatically reshaping his service, Marine Corps Commandant General Berger managed to stop by the Sea Control virtual studio (the first podcast program to make it on his Commandant’s reading list.) In a wide-ranging interview, we discussed force design, expeditionary logistics, the Light Amphibious Warship, anti-submarine warfare, Navy-Marine Corps command and control arrangements and more.

Sea Control 269 – USMC Commandant General David Berger On Force Design

Links

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

By Jared Samuelson

Dr. Brian Chao and CAPT Hugues Canuel join the program for a discussion of rising and falling French seapower. The discussion spans the period from the Pax Britannica until post-World War 2 and includes comparisons of France’s evolving relationship with seapower to China’s rise today.

Sea Control 268 – French Seapower with CAPT Hugues Canuel and Dr. Brian Chao

Links

2. BrianCChao.com

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

This episode was edited and produced by Jonathan Selling.