Sea Control 606: The Growing Complexity of PLA Amphibious Exercises

About this episode

The episode discusses the complexities of PLA amphibious exercises with insights from national security researchers.

Host Brian Kerg talks with Jason Wang and Marvin Bernardo to discuss their report, “Everything Everywhere All At Once: The Growing Complexity of PLA Amphibious Exercises,” published by the Naval War College’s China Maritime Studies Institute (CMSI). Jason Wang is a national security researcher and COO of ingeniSPACE, a Silicon Valley geointelligence analytics house. Marvin Bernardo is a PhD candidate at the National Jung ju University, Taiwan, and serves as a maritime domain analyst at ingeniSPACE. The report was also co-authored by Andrew Erickson and Pei-Jhen Wu.

People in this episode

Host: Brian Kerg

Guests: Jason Wang, Marvin Bernardo

Topics covered

• PLA Amphibious Exercises
• National Security
• Geointelligence
• Maritime Domain Analysis
• China Military

Keywords

• PLA
• Amphibious Exercises
• National Security
• Geointelligence
• China Maritime Studies

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Naval War College, China Maritime Studies Institute, ingeniSPACE, National Jung ju University

Places: Taiwan

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