Sea Control

Wielding the Trident Andrew Blackley

Links:  China Maritime Report #52: Everything Everywhere All At Once: The Growing Complexity of PLA Amphibious Exercises: Direct link to China Maritime Report #52 China Maritime Studies Institute CMSI Reports LinkedIn IngeniSPACE News Site   Bio: Jason Wang is a national security researcher and COO of ingeniSPACE, a Silicon Valley geointelligence analytics house. Marvin Bernardo is a PhD candidate...

Dr. Michał Piekarski is Assistant Professor at the Institute of International and Security Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Wrocław. His research focuses on national security issues, particularly hybrid threats, maritime security, and Poland’s strategic culture. J. Overton is the co-host of the Sea Control podcast and edited the essay collection “Seapower by Other Mea...

Bio: Lieutenant Colonel Bobby Fowler is the Provost Marshal at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, and an operational planner with extensive experience in the Pacific Theater.

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Rae Baker is an expert in Maritime Intelligence, focused on hunting vessels and tracking elusive AIS signals in her role as Senior OSINT Analyst in Adversary Intelligence. Rae specializes in Human Targeting and Corporate Reconnaissance, utilizing her skills to chart illicit organizations. These practiced skills serve well in Rae’s volunteer positions with OSINT-oriented non-profits and speaking en...

Ian T. Brown is a retired Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter pilot, with multiple deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Pacific throughout his career. He has written dozens of articles, reviews, and short stories on military history, military theory, future war, and wargaming, to include the book A New Conception of War: John Boyd, the U.S. Marines, and Maneuver Warfare (Marine Corp...

Links:  https://thecultureshack.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/updated-resilience-roadmap- 2.0-.pdf https://blog.schee.info/2024/11/04/civil-defense-in-taiwan-its-not-just-one-or-two-groups/ https://blog.schee.info/2025/10/12/zero-based-mobilization-a-rapid-assessment-of-the- recent-hualien-flood-disaster-and-the-modernization-of-taiwans-mobilization-systems/ https://blog.schee.info/2023/05/28/di...

Thomas M. Duffy is a retired American diplomat and naval officer writing as an independent researcher. His interests are naval history and maritime strategy. Tom’s assignments over his 38-year overall career with the US Government included service aboard USS Cochrane (DDG-21) during the Tanker War and as a maritime strategist in the Pentagon with the US Navy’s Strategic Concepts Group (OP-603). Af...

Links No paywall “Erasing the American Global Military Footprint Won’t Make a Better World,”  in  Newsweek “Five Recommendations for Left-of-Boom Security Assistance to Taiwan,” in War on the Rocks “The Taiwan Question: Cross-Strait Relations and US Policy Past, Present, and Future,”  virtual lecture for the Naval War College Foundation Paywalled “Muddied Waters: Freedom-of-Navigation Operations a...

Ross Hill is the founder and CEO of Insight Forward (IF), a Geopolitical Risk Intelligence advisory service specializing in corporate intelligence. He has over 15 years’ experience in public and private sector intelligence. Dr. Treston Wheat is currently the Chief Geopolitical Officer with Insight Forward specializing in geopolitical risk and red teaming. Dr. Wheat is also an adjunct professor at...

Links:  Steve’s website  “The Last Navigator: A Young Man, and Ancient Mariner, the Secrets of the Sea ”  The Last Navigator documentary Steve’s lecture at the US Naval Academy

Links 1. Elsa Kania's LinkedIn profile .

Links 1." The Trump-class Battleship: Spectacle Wins Out over Combat Power ," by Emma Salisbury, Foreign Policy Research Institute, January 8, 2026. 2. " Want of Frigates: Why Is It So Hard For America to Buy Small Surface Combatants? " by Emma Salisbury, Foreign Policy Research Institute, December 1, 2025. 3. " Atlantic Bastion: The Future of Anti-Submarine Warfare ," by Emma Salisbury, Foreign P...

Links 1. "For 250 years, it’s been ‘change or lose’ for our military. Here’s what needs changing now," by Robert Neller and Peter Singer, Defense One, June 22, 2025. 2. "Change or Lose: Past and Future War Lessons on 250th Birthday of the US Army and US Marine Corps," by Robert Neller and Peter Singer, Youtube, November 10, 2025. 3. "Thinking First, Adapting Fast: Debating the Marine Corps’ Need f...

Links 1. “ Bases on the Aleutians Islands Would Project Power Across the Pacific ,” by Steven Hulse, Proceedings, January 2025. 

Links 1. " Maritime Statecraft and its Future ," by Steve Brock and Hunter Stires, CIMSEC, October 21, 2025. 2. " SECNAV Del Toro Calls for a New, Bold Maritime Statecraft in Era of Intense Strategic Competition ," Department of the Navy, September 23, 2023. 

Links “ Carrier 2.0: The Drone Carrier Revolution ,” by Colton Byers, War Quants, December 28, 2024.  “ Damn the Torpedoes: The Return of Naval Mining ,” by Colton Byers, War Quants, January 31, 2025. 

Links 1. Non-state Special Operations: Capabilities and Effects , Ian Rice and Craig Whiteside, Routledge, 2025. 2. The Isis Reader Substack . 3. @CraigAWhiteside on X . 4. @craigwhiteside@bsky.social on BlueSky . 5. Craig Whiteside personal site and publications .

1. " Outsourcing Security at Sea—The Return of Private Maritime-Security Companies and Their Role in Twenty-First-Century Maritime Security ," by Pieter Zhao, Naval War College Review , Winter 2024. 2. Irregular Warfare Initiative. 3. Pieter Zhao LinkedIn. 4. Pieter Zhao BlueSky. 5. Pieter Zhao Contact Page.

Links 1. Elaine Helm Linkedin .

Links 1. " What Moral Leadership Looks Like ," by William Spears, CIMSEC, July 16, 2025.  2. Stoicism as a Warrior Philosophy: Insights on the Morality of Military Service , by William Spears, Casemate, 2025. 3. William Spears website .

Links 1. " What Imperial Germany Teaches About China’s Naval Basing Ambitions ," by Chuck Ridgway, Proceedings, May 2025.

Links 1. Sebastian Bae Twitter .

Links 1. Dr Ronald C. Po profile. 2. Shaping the Blue Dragon Maritime China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties , by Ronald Po, Liverpool University Press, 2024. 3. Dr. Xing Hang on the Zheng regime in Taiwan. 4. Dr. Ling-wei Kung  on the Manchu's maritime awareness prior to establishing their capital in Beijing