Sea Control - CIMSEC

Australia’s Defence White Paper, submarines and scotch? Sounds like a recipe for a fun time. Get ready for a special joint episode with the Perth USAsia Centre’s Perspectives podcast series. In this episode, Kyle Springer, Program Associate at the Perth US Asia Centre, asks Natalie Sambhi, host of Sea Control: Asia Pacific, and Reed Foster, retired US Army officer … Continue reading Sea Control 112 – Australia’s 2016 Defence White Paper →

We discuss the Vietnam-era drone, the QH-50 DASH, with Peter Papadakos – engineer, historian, and son of the DASH’s inventor. We go through the program’s origins, its original purpose, the field modifications made by enterprising Vietnam-era officers, and the challenges that came with its operation and the institutional resistance to its use. This podcast was … Continue reading Sea Control 111 – Vietnam-Era Drones (QH-50) →

This week Natalie Sambhi interviews fellow Aussie Laura Spano, Arms Control Manager with the Centre for Armed Violence Reduction and Pacific Regional Coordinator for Control Arms. They discuss small arms flows globally before focussing on the impacts of illicit arms flows, as a result of weak maritime security, into the South Pacific Islands—a region of great … Continue reading Sea Control 110 – Small Arms Control and the South Pacific →

CAPT Jim Raimondo of the United States Navy joins Sea Control for a discussion on Navy Fitness Reports (FITREPS) as well as his time working on Iraq, Iran, and Russia. CAPT Raimondo is a Federal Executive Fellow with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy as well as a fleet representative for the U.S. Naval Institute. … Continue reading Sea Control 109 – CAPT Raimondo & Navy FITREPS →

Professor Thomas Nichols, Naval War College Professor, joins us to discuss the topic of his article, “The Death of Expertise,” and the utility and interplay between new ideas, expertise, and the kinds of knowledge used by and found in the professional space and life in general. Download: Sea Control 108 – Expertise

CAPT Sean Heritage, CO of Navy Cyber Operations Defense Command, joins us to discuss the responsibilities of his command, the Navy cyber defense enterprise,  institutional innovation, and working as EA to ADM Rogers, Director NSA. DOWNLOAD: CAPT Heritage and Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command

What’s life like on a US Navy submarine? Do submariners listen to Lauryn Hill? What kind of whiskey do they drink? In Sea Control: Asia-Pacific’s first podcast for 2016, Natalie Sambhi, Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, interviews the very cool dudes from Diver Tough, a weekly podcast series by former US Navy submariners … Continue reading Sea Control 106 – Diver Tough and #Submarinerlife →

The hosts Matt Hipple, Natalie Sambhi, and Alex Clarke get together for a Christmas and New Years podcast on… stuff. From nukes to women in combat to the Wu Tang clan – we walk in with no plan in particular and walk out having successfully executed it. DOWNLOAD: Christmas and Nukes

Coming to you from Washington DC, Natalie Sambhi, Analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute interviews Phuong Nguyen, Associate Fellow with the Southeast Asia Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies on Vietnam’s evolving foreign policy and strategic posture. Natalie and Phuong discuss the 2014 Haiyang Shiyou 981 oil-rig incident between Vietnam and China and … Continue reading Sea Control 104 – Vietnam’s Foreign Policy →

This week, we jumped on the Midrats podcast with Chris Kona and Paul Vebber to discuss the CNO Rapid Innovation Cell Fleet Battle School project  – which is now available for those interested in the beta test. With CDR Salamander at the helm, we discuss the history, purpose, and mechanics of the project and the … Continue reading Sea Control 103 – CRIC Fleet Battle School on Midrats →

Professor Sung-Yoon Lee, Assistant Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, joins Matthew Merighi of Sea Control North America . In this episode, Professor Lee talks about North Korea, its nuclear program, and the broader politics of East Asia. He gives a candid view of the Hermit Kingdom and how the United States and the … Continue reading Sea Control 102 – The North Korea Challenge →

Our President and Director of Online Content give thanks for YOU involvement, and lay out new ways for those interested to take part in the CIMSEC project. Sea Control Thanksgiving 2015

The RTS crew discusses HALO – everything from the technology to whether or not Master Chief receives a military housing allowance. “Real Time Strategy,” is a discussion on the lessons and non-lessons of the simulations we use to both learn and entertain in the realm of military strategy, tactics, and history. DOWNLOAD: HALO iTunes Link

If you wish to know how to raise a modern combat squadron from nothing to combat ready in 21 Days you need look know further, Cdr Tim Gedge RN accomplished in 1982 when he raised a 809 squadron not once, but twice! The first time was during the Falklands War itself, and the second time … Continue reading Sea Control 101 – Falklands 10 – 21 Days to take a Squadron to War →

Many questions have arisen about the USS LASSEN Freedom of Navigation Operation (FONOP) that occured at Subi Reef on Oct 27. Last week, we discussed those issues, the South China Sea, and future FONOPS with Timothy Choi, author of “Why the US Navy’s First South China Sea FONOP Wasn’t a FONOP” and Ankit Panda, Editor … Continue reading Sea Control 100 – South China Sea Freedom of Navigation →