By Jared Samuelson
Defecting Soviet sailors, possible contamination from explosions in Chinese port facilities, and deadly lemons! How do the U.S. and Canadian governments organize a whole-of-government response to a threat originating in the maritime domain? Brian Wilson and Nora Johnson join the podcast to discuss Maritime Operational Threat Response, the U.S. response, and Maritime Emergency Response Protocol, its Canadian counterpart.
Download Sea Control 252 – Bordering on Crisis with Brian Wilson and Nora Johnson
Links
1. “Bordering on Crisis: Overcoming Multiagency Crisis Coordination Challenges,” by Brian Wilson and Nora Johnson, New York University Press, 2021.
2. The Jump
3. “The Defection of Simas Kudirka,” by Tom Dunlop, Martha’s Vineyard Magazine, December 1, 2005.
4. “China explosions: what we know about what happened in Tianjin,” BBC, August 17, 2015.
5. MV Sun Sea
6. “Lemons Caught in a Squeeze,” by Paul Blustein and Brian rnes, The Washington Post, September 10, 2004.
Jared Samuelson is Executive Producer and Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.
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Set up analyses/inspections labs at the points of departure/arrival at both ends of the journey to and from and within the ports and fix this system in place by governments agreements. Such cargoes should also be handled and be a responsubility of named officials both in dock and at sea; thus maintaining supervison continuity.
Just musing.