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Call for Articles: NATO Naval Power and Maritime Security

Articles Due: March 31, 2025
Series Dates: April 21-25, 2025
Article Length: 1,500-3,000 words
Send To: [email protected].

By Dmitry Filipoff

The NATO alliance is facing an inflection point as the U.S. reconsiders its commitments. NATO navies must envision alternative futures where they may have to take on a much greater share of their collective defense. As the U.S. seeks a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine, NATO navies may have to brace for Russian threats on different terms.

How may NATO navies evolve in this changing context? How may threats from Russia in the maritime domain shift and present newfound challenges to NATO naval power? How can NATO navies strategize their roles in the Indo-Pacific and the Middle East amidst tensions with China and active combat operations in the Red Sea? Authors are invited to consider these questions and more as we consider the future of NATO’s naval power and maritime security.

Send all submissions to [email protected].

Dmitry Filipoff is CIMSEC’s Director of Online Content. Contact him at [email protected].

Featured Image: Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 ships and submarines sail in formation in the Ionian Sea off the coast of Sicily on February 21, 2022 during Exercise Dynamic Manta. (NATO photo) 

Sea Control 564 – Canoes, Rivers, and more with Scot McFarlane

By J. Overton

Historian Scot McFarlane joins the program to discuss the role of the canoe in warfare. He discusses the advantages the canoe provided in colonial America as well as the continued uses of canoes in warfare today. Scot McFarlane is a river historian and founder of the Oxbow History Company.

Download Sea Control 564 – Canoes, Rivers, and more with Scot McFarlane


Links

1. Scot McFarlane, “The Canoe,” American Historical Association.

J. Overton is Co-Host of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at [email protected].

Addison Pellerano edited and produced this episode.

Sea Control 563 – Red Sea Combat with CDR Brian C. Sánchez

By Jonathan Selling

Commander Brian Sánchez joins the program to talk about his time commanding the USS Gravely in the Red Sea. He discuss the engagements  the ship took part in as part of its deployment, including the CIWS engagement on January 30th and the “Battle of the BAM” on January 9th.

Download Sea Control 563 – The Red Sea with CDR Brian C. Sánchez

Links

1. CNO’s NAVPLAN.

2. CNO NAVPLAN 1-page primer.

3. Project 33 1-page primer.

Jonathan Selling is Co-Host and Executive Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at [email protected].

Brendan Costello edited and produced this episode.

Sea Control 562 – Rendered Obsolete with Dr. Jamie Jones

By Jared Samuelson

Dr. Jamie L. Jones joins the program to discuss her book, Rendered Obsolete – Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling. Jamie L. Jones is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research explores the historic pivot in energy use in the nineteenth century, when whale oil and other organic energy sources gave way to fossil fuels

Download Sea Control 562 – Rendered Obsolete with Dr. Jamie Jones

Links

1. Rendered Obsolete – Energy Culture and the Afterlife of US Whaling, by Jamie L. Jones, University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 

2. Jamie L. Jones Twitter handle.

Jared Samuelson is Co-Host and Executive Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at [email protected].

Addison Pellerano edited and produced this episode.