Links: 1. Pirates of the Slave Trade – The Battle of Cape Lopez and the Birth of an American Institution, by Angela C. Sutton, Prometheus Books, 2023. 2. Angela Sutton's Website

Links1. “Assessment of Chinese Maritime Interests in Indian Ocean Region,” by Commodore Venugopal Vengalil, Chennai Centre for China Studies, December 7, 2023.2. Commodore Venugopal Vengali’s X Feed.

Links1. British Special Service Squadron.2. National Museum of the Royal Navy.

Links1. "Wartime Command and Control," by Admiral Scott Swift (ret.), Proceedings, January 2024.2. Sea Control 254 - Defining Readiness with Admiral Scott Swift (ret.), CIMSEC, May 28, 2021.3. "Admiral Scott Swift on Leadership, Risk, and a Life in the U.S. Navy," by Christopher Nelson, CIMSEC, August 14, 2017.4.The American Sea Power Project.5. "To deter China, the US and Taiwan should seek asymmetric symmetry," by Admiral Scott Swift (ret.) Heino Klinck, Defense News, January 25, 2024. 

Links:1. 21st Century as the Pacific Century – Culture and Security of Oceania States in Great Power Competition, edited by Joanna Siekiera, University of Warsaw Press, 2023. 2. Sea Control 255 - Littoral Access Companies with Zach Ota, CIMSEC, June 3, 2021. 3. Sea Control 304 -France in the Pacific, CIMSEC, December 23, 2021.4. Sea Control 333 - CRIMARIO: France, the EU and the Indo-Pacific, CIMSEC, April 3, 2022. 5. Island Soldier

Links1. “The United Kingdom’s Indo-Pacific Engagement,” by Peter Chalk, War on the Rocks, November 30, 2023. 

Links:1.  Seapower by Other Means, edited by J. Overton, ISPK Seapower Series, 2023. 2. Sea Control 487 - Naval Exploration and Global Empire with Dr. Michael Verney, CIMSEC, December 28, 2023. 3. Dr. Katrina Ponti

Links1. The Academy - A Dan Lenson Novel, by David Poyer, St. Martin's Press, December 2023. 2. Poyer.com.

Links1. “Citizen Sailors: The Missing link in Maritime Force Structure,” by Joshua Taylor and Scott Humphrey, War on the Rocks, November 15, 2023. 2. “The U.S. Navy Needs Its Own Bonds to Be Ready for China,” by Joshua Taylor, Foreign Policy, November 5, 2021. 

Links1.  Naval Presence and the Interwar US Navy and Marine Corps, Forward Deployment, Crisis Response, and the Tyranny of History, by Benjamin Armstrong, Routledge, 2024.2. Sea Control 239 - Things Done By Halves with Dr. BJ Armstrong, CIMSEC, April 11, 2021. 3. Sea Control 311  - Developing the Naval Mind with BJ Armstrong and John Freymann, CIMSEC, January 20, 2022. 4. Sea Control 209 - Learning War with Trent Hone and Sebastian Goldstein, CIMSEC, November 1, 2020. 5. Military Innovation in the Interwar Period, by William Murray and Allan Reed Millett (eds), Cambridge University Press, August 13, 1998.

Links:1. “Cocaine Codfish: How the War on Drugs Can Inform the Fight Against Illegal Fishing,” by Aaron Delano-Johnson, War on the Rocks (October 16, 2023). 2. “A Plan to Push Back Against China’s Fishing Practices” by Aaron Delano-Johnson and Chris Bernotavicus, War on the Rocks (December 2, 2022). 3. Sea Control 219: USCG Commandant Admiral Karl Schultz, CIMSEC (December 27, 2020). 4. Sea Control 256: Reporting From the Sea With Ian Urbina, CIMSEC (June 6, 2021). 5. The Outlaw Ocean Project6. “Memorandum on Combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing and Associated Labor Abuses,” The White House (June 27, 2022). 7. “Future IUU Fishing Trends in a Warming World: A global Horizon Scan,” by Lauren Young, Cathy Haenlein and Grace Evans, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) March 1, 2023.8. Move the IUU Fight Up the Food Chain,” by Conor Sullivan, USNI Proceedings (November 2023). 

Links1. A Global Force for Good: Sea Services Humanitarian Operations in the Twenty-First Century, by John Sherwood, Naval History and Heritage Command, September 2023.

“Game Changer: The Philippines’ Assertive Transparency Campaign: How the Philippines Rewrote the Counter Gray Zone Playbook in 2023”, by Col. Raymond Powell US Air Force (Ret) and Benjamin Goirigolzarri Ph. D., Stratbase ADRi, January 12, 2024Sea Control 456 - China’s Maritime Gray Zone Tactics and SeaLight with Ray Powell and Gaute Friis, by Jared Samuelson, Sea Control Podcast, August, 24, 2023

LinksNavigating security challenges in West Africa, by Ebunoluwa George Ojo-Ami, International Security Journal, August 9, 2023. 

Links1. “Written in Black and Red: Asymmetric Threats and Affordable Unmanned Vessels,” by Michael Knickerbocker, War on the Rocks, January 3, 20242. “Trashing Energy Needs: A Cast for Expanded Plasma Gasification Use by the US Military,” by Michael Knickerbocker, The Defense Post, October 23, 2023.3. “Episode 101: UUVs: Underwater Drones and Seabed Warfare,” by The Red Line Podcast, August 8, 2023. 4. “Sea Control 426: “Every Ship A SAG” with Lt Kyle Cregge,” by Andrea Howard, CIMSEC, April 13, 2023.5. “Autonomous Pickets for Force Protection and Fleet Missile Defense,” by Walker D. mills, CIMSEC, May 8, 2019.

Link: Islamic Law of the Sea – Freedom of Navigation and Passage Rights in Islamic Thought, Cambridge University Press, April 2019. 

Link:Collective Defence and Bastion: The Strategic Importance of NATO’s Northern Flank, by Julian Pawlak, German Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies, March 2022.

Links1. "Dead Reckoning," by Robert Kolker, The Atavist Magazine, No. 142, August 2023. 2. Robert Kolker's official website.

A Great and Rising Nation – Naval Exploration and Global Empire in the Early US Republic, by Michael A. Verney, The University of Chicago Press, 2022.

Link: Force Writers Room

Links:The Frontier Sea: The Napoleonic Wars in the Adriatic, by Dave Watson, Balkan Military History, 2023.Balkan Military History 

Links1. USS LST-325 Ship Memorial Website.2. Bringing Back a Hero, by Robert D. Jornlin, Jornlin Farm, 2014.

Links1. The Transformation of Maritime Professions: Old and New Jobs in European Shipping Industries, 1850-2000, edited by Karel Davids and Joost Schokkenbroek, Palgrave MacMillan, 2023.

Links1. An Honorable Place in American Air Power:” Civil Air Patrol Operations, 1942-1943 by Frank Blazich, Air University Press, 2020.2. Civil Air Patrol Air Force Auxiliary website.

Links1. Logistics interdiction for Taiwan Unification Campaigns, by Jacob Maywald, Benjamin Hazen, Edward Salo, and Michael Hugos, War on the Rocks, August 21, 2023.

Links1. Ethnographic and lived experience of cold-water immersion: The compromised survival of women at sea due to ill-fitting immersion suits. by Rosemary Ricciardelli and Heather Carnahan, Journal of Maritime Research, February 6, 2023

Links1. "Aides Are More than Bag Carriers," by Major Lauren Serrano, Proceedings, July 2023.

Links1. “On Understanding the Naval War,” by Thord Are Iversen, Reports by T.A. Iversen, October 5, 2023.2. Reports by T.A. Iversen.

Links1. Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c. 1500-1815, edited by J.D. Davies, Alan James, Gijs Rommelse,Routledge, 2019.

Links1. The Titanic and the City of Widows It Left Behind – The Forgotten Victims of the Fatal Voyage, by Julie Cook, Pen and Sword History, April 6, 2020.

Links1. Red Star Over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge to U.S. Maritime Strategy, second edition, by Toshi Yoshihara and James Holmes, USNI Books, 2018. 2. Mao’s Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China’s Navy, by Toshi Yoshihara, Georgetown University Press, 2022. 3. "China’s Lessons from the Pacific War and Implications for Future Warfighting," by Toshi Yoshihara, CIMSEC, March 22, 2023. 4. "China as a Composite Land-Sea Power: A Geostrategic Concept Revisited," by Toshi Yoshihara, CIMSEC, January 6, 2021.5. "How China has Overtaken Japan in Naval Power and Why It Matters," by Toshi Yoshihara, CIMSEC, June 22, 2020.6. "Assessing the Military Balance in the Western Pacific with Dr. Toshi Yoshihara," by Cris Lee, CIMSEC, November 5, 2018.7. Sea Control 288: Chinese Civilian Shipping and the Threat to Taiwan with Tom Shugart, CIMSEC, October 28, 2021. 

Link:"AUKUS: When naval procurement drives grand strategy," by Dr. Jonathan Caverley, International Journal: Canada's Journal of Global Policy Analysis, September 2023. 

Links1. Power Up: Leadership, Character, and Conflict Beyond the Superhero Multiverse, edited by Steven Leonard, Jonathan Klug, Kelsey Cipolla and Jon Niccum, Casemate, 2023.

Dr. Prakash Gopal joins the program to discuss his dissertation topic, littoral security. Dr Prakash Gopal is a former Indian naval officer with over two decades of experience in maritime security operations, policy and strategy. He was a Research Fellow at the National Maritime Foundation, India from 2016-18. In 2018 Prakash took up a PhD position at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security, University of Wollongong. He completed his PhD in April 2023. This episode was edited and produced by Jonathan Selling.

Links1. (Re)Learning Old Tricks: The Royal Navy’s Coastal Forces Squadron, by Richard Skelton and Andrew Young, RUSI, July 6, 2023.   2. Sea Control 421 - Uncommon Courage: Yachtsmen Volunteers of World War 2 with Julia Jones, CIMSEC, March 23, 2023.3. Sea Control 458 - Destroyer Diplomacy with Dr. Jayne Friend, CIMSEC, August 31, 2023.4. Sea Control 421 - Uncommon Courage: Yachtsmen Volunteers of World War 2 with Julia Jones, CIMSEC, March 23, 2023.

Link:"The Underwater Environment and European Defence and Security," edited by Elio Calcagno and Alessandro Marrone, Istituto Affari Internazionali, June 13, 2023. 

Links1. "The Navy’s Study-Abroad Programs Need Better Variety," by Natalie Schirmacher, Proceedings, February 2023.

Links1. Airborne Anti-Submarine Warfare From the First World War to the Present Day, by Michael E. Glynn, Frontline Books, May 15, 2022.2. Fighter Combat - Tactics and Maneuvering, by Robert Shaw, United States Naval Institute Press, 1985.

Armada: The Spanish Enterprise and England’s Deliverance in 1588, by Colin Martin and Geoffrey Parker, Yale University Press, 2023

Links1. "A Strait Too Far: How a Deliberate Campaigning Approach in the Pacific Can Make Beijing Think Twice," by Benjamin Van Horrick, War on the Rocks, June 5, 2023.2. "Creating a Sea Change: TF 76/3, Adaptation, Experimentation, and the Joint Force," by Steven Bancroft and Benjamin Van Horrick, Modern War Institute, March 1, 2023.3. "The Complicated Legacy of Jean Larteguy's "The Centurions" and America's Post-9/11 Wars," by Benjamin Van Horrick, Modern War Institute, August 30, 2023.4. The Chinese Invasion Threat, by Ian Easton, Eastbridge Books, April 2019.

"Uncharted Waters: Assessing China’s Intentions to Deploy Floating Nuclear Power Plants in the South China Sea", by Jonathan Deemer, Omar Pimentel, Mi Jin Ryu, Miku Yamada, and Edward Jenner, Center for Global Security Research, June 2023.

Links1. The Newport Manual on the Law of Naval Warfare, by James Kraska, Pete Pedrozo, et al., International Law Studies, U.S. Naval War College, 2023.2. "Radioactive Tsunamis: Nuclear Torpedo Drones and Their Legality in War," by Pete Pedrozo, CIMSEC, September 4, 2023.3. San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea.

“Joint communication on the update of the EU Maritime Security Strategy and its Action Plan: An enhanced EU Maritime Security Strategy for evolving maritime threats” by EU Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, March 10, 2023

Links1. Ecosystems of the Mediterranean Sea: A Photographic Dive, by Daniel Abed-Navandi and Georg Glaeser, Springer, 2023.

The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial & Maritime Disputes, by Emilia Justyna Powell and Krista E. Wiegand, Oxford University Press, 2023

“The Hulks of the Hamoaze: a Study of the Receiving Ships of Plymouth during the Napoleonic Wars," by Emma Haddon, University of Portsmouth, July 25, 2022.

"Controlling the Northern Seas: The Influence of Exclusive Economic Zones on the Development of Norwegian, Danish, and Canadian Naval Forces," by Dr. Tim Choi, University of Calgary PRISM Repository, December 12, 2022

"Destroyer Flag-Flying Visits, Civic Ceremony, Empire and Identity in interwar Britain," by Dr. Jayne Friend, British Journal for Military History, Volume 7, Issue 2, July 2021.