By Jared Samuelson

The Secretary of the Navy recently announced the intent to re-establish the U.S. First Fleet in the Indo-Pacific region. Our guests, Darshana Baruah and Blake Herzinger, offer their thoughts on how to approach the region conceptually, France’s influence, potential command-and-control issues, resource allocation, basing options, and more!

Download Sea Control 217 – First Fleet with Darshana Baruah & Blake Herzinger

Links

1. “Time to Launch a Combined Maritime Task Force for the Pacific,” Eric Sayers, War on the Rocks, June 1, 2018. 

Jared Samuelson is the Senior Producer of the Sea Control Podcast. Contact him at [email protected]