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- 76 - Semiconductors and National Security
Bill Wiseman leads McKinsey’s Global Semiconductor Practice and founded its Taipei Design Lab. He brings a rare mix of semiconductor engineering and national security experience to one question: what happens if Taiwan cannot ship silicon. We unpack why Taiwan risk is bigger than “leading edge logic” including NOR flash, DRAM, advanced packaging, and the electronics manufacturing ecosystem.
Bill explains why this is a 15 year-plus problem, why markets struggle to price it, and why collective action fails without coordination. We then shift to export controls and coalition durability, why ASML and the Netherlands matter, and how corporate incentives differ for commodity components vs ecosystem businesses.
Finally, we get into the messy reality of IP leakage, cyber theft, and why quantum readiness may be the most practical near-term move, plus what the CHIPS Act should be measured on: HBM, packaging, talent, power, and grid margin.
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This and all episodes are enhanced with lots of useful links and transcripts which you can read at https://typhoonbearing.substack.com/p/semiconductors-and-national-security
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Timestamps:
(00:17) Taiwan disruption, global shock
(03:12) Markets, pricing, game theory
(07:05) Taiwan politics, silicon shield
(10:04) Board plans, inventory reality
(17:08) Export controls, coalition durability
(25:38) IP theft, quantum risk
(34:35) CHIPS Act success metrics
(46:01) Security needs beyond leading edge
(55:11) Recommendations and closing
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Wed, 04 Mar 2026 - 1h 03min - 75 - 17- The Late Cold War
The rise of a navy unchallenged in the world...
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Wed, 14 Sep 2022 - 44min - 74 - Booty, Blockades, and Prizes with Andrew Claphan
Traditionally war came with loot. This loot took a lot of forms, ranging from slaves (definitely not allowed today), to enemy military equipment, and whatever you could plunder from the enemies cities and countryside. We still have a few vestiges of these sorts of takings that are "legal" in warfare today. Andrew Clapham argues that we should almost completely ban these sorts of prize-taking, along with blockades and other tools of warfare. I'd actually argue that they are not all bad, and we have a pretty good debate about the topic on this podcast.
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Mon, 04 Nov 2024 - 31min - 73 - The Perils of Interpreting (The Opium War)
When the biggest country in the world and the most powerful country in the world can't even talk to each other, how can they possibly avoid war? Well, in the case of the Chinese and British in the early 19th Century... they didn't!
In this episode of the U.S. Naval History Podcast, I interview Professor Henrietta Harrison on the leadup to war that in some ways parallels our world today.
We discuss:
- The difficulty in getting the right information to the country's leaders and the dangers when this does not happen well
- How difficult it is to translate not only languages, but cultures and worldview between Anglo-American English and Chinese
- How just being close enough to do the direct translation in often seen. as inherently suspicious
- The not-so-great fates of the two key interpreters between England and China
- The First Opium War
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Fri, 01 Nov 2024 - 43min - 72 - Diplomacy by Other Means
Why did the United States fight the Barbary Wars? How did early American diplomacy, economics, and naval power converge to confront North Africa's Barbary states?
In this episode of the U.S. Naval History Podcast, Chase Dalton interviews Professor Abby Mullen from the United States Naval Academy, author of To Fix a National Character: The United States in the First Barbary War, 1800-1805. Together, they explore the Barbary Wars through the lens of diplomacy, economic strategy, and naval action.
We discuss:
- The diplomatic landscape between the United States, Barbary states, and European powers,
- The importance of trade routes and the Mediterranean post-Independence,
- How American naval captains operated under minimal guidance, acting as both diplomats and warriors,
- The ideological motivations driving early U.S. foreign policy, and
- The role of European powers and international relations in shaping the outcome of the Barbary Wars.
We also dive into how the U.S. Navy developed through these conflicts and the lessons learned for future engagements.
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Thu, 24 Oct 2024 - 1h 01min - 71 - Accidental Exporters: How Britain Taught America to Guard Its Tech Secrets
In this episode I talk with Kate Epstein about her new book "Analog Superpowers: How a 20th Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State."
Key points:
- The book focuses on the development of fire control technology for battleships in Britain and how the U.S. essentially stole this technology.
- The challenges of protecting military inventions through patents while maintaining secrecy.
- The concept of "technology laundering" and how nations rewrite history to appear more innovative.
- Parallels are drawn between UK-US tech transfers in the early 20th century, US-Soviet dynamics during the Cold War, and current US-China tensions.
- The evolution of export control laws is discussed, tracing their origins from British influence to modern-day semiconductor restrictions.
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Fri, 18 Oct 2024 - 53min - 70 - Early Military-Industrial Complex
How did the military-industrial complex get it's start? How did it affect our early wars?
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Mon, 23 Sep 2024 - 31min - 69 - River War: The Battle of Memphis
In this episode, I dive into the dramatic Battle of Memphis and its prelude, a crucial moment in the struggle for control of the Mississippi River during the Civil War. Three unusual fleets - two Union and one Confederate - converged on Memphis in June 1862.
We examine the desperate improvisation of the Confederate River Defense Fleet, the Union's evolving Western Flotilla, and the controversial addition of Charles Elliott's civilian-built ram fleet. Get ready for a blow-by-blow account of river warfare, complete with surprise attacks, chaotic melees, and spectators watching from the bluffs.
This is the story of how the Union secured control of the upper Mississippi, opening the way to Vicksburg. It's a tale of innovative tactics, clashing personalities, and a battle that showcased the rapidly evolving nature of naval warfare - where ironclads, rams, and cotton-clads clashed in a way never seen before or since.
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Tue, 03 Sep 2024 - 44min - 68 - River War: Taking Island No. 10
Imagine you're a Union soldier, slogging through knee-deep Mississippi mud, trying to outflank a fortress that's not even on dry land. Welcome to Island Number 10.
In this episode, we're diving into the Battle of Island Number Ten. We'll explore how a patch of land barely above the waterline became a linchpin in the Mississippi. You'll hear about innovative tactics- from digging canals through swamps to ironclad ships running gauntlets in pitch-black thunderstorms.
This is a story of naval duels on a river, of mortar boats raining iron from the sky, and of commanders gambling with thousands of lives. It's about the precarious nature of nineteenth-century siege warfare and where spring floods could wash away the best-laid plans.
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Thu, 22 Aug 2024 - 47min - 67 - The River War- The Battles of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson
In this episode, we dive into the Civil War battles that cracked open the Western theater: Fort Henry and Fort Donelson. These were the fights where Grant and his ironclads showed what they could do.
We explore how the messy politics of border states set the stage, why Kentucky and Tennessee were so crucial, and how these victories let the Union push deep into Confederate territory. Get ready for a blow-by-blow of river warfare, complete with frozen soldiers, daring attacks, and Grant's famous "unconditional surrender" moment.
This is the story of how the Union found its fighting general and how the mighty Mississippi started to slip from Confederate hands. It's a tale of innovative weapons, bold strategies, and the battles that changed the course of the war.
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Wed, 31 Jul 2024 - 34min - 66 - The River War- The Plan to Strangle the South and the Battle of Belmont
Before the modern era, rivers were either great defensive positions, or offensive highways into your enemy's heartland. For the western half of the Confederacy, the North-South rivers were a mortal danger. The Confederacy knew they had to defend their rivers no matter what... and Grant knew he had to take them.
This episode tells the story of the first battle of the River War, the Battle of Belmont - Ulysses S. Grant's first Civil War engagement and the first step of Grant's campaign that ultimately led to Vicksburg in 1863.
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Sat, 13 Jul 2024 - 18min - 65 - The River War (part 1)
Happy 4th of July!
This is the trailer for the next mini-series on the western campaign of the Civil War which culminated with the surrender of Vicksburg on July 4th, 1863.
This was the first true joint (Army-Navy closely working together) campaign in American history and one that I really have enjoyed researching. Stay tuned over the next few weeks!
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Thu, 04 Jul 2024 - 04min - 64 - Blockades, Booty, and Prizes...now illegal?
Should a country be allowed to blockade (and potentially starve) another country into submission during wartime? Right now, the answer is...sorta??
The legal context of maritime warfare tactics such as blockades, booty, and prizes is evolving. I discuss how these strategies, historically significant in wars like the Revolutionary War and both World Wars, are now complicated by international laws. Special guest Andrew Clapham, a professor of public international law, explains the humanitarian and legal challenges surrounding these tactics in modern warfare. We talk about specific examples, including the ongoing conflicts involving Russia, Ukraine, and Yemen, highlighting the complexity and humanitarian considerations of enforcing blockades today.
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Wed, 26 Jun 2024 - 32min - 63 - Building the Polaris Missile System that Kept the Country Safe in the Cold War
This episode covers the history of the Polaris missile system, which was a key development in the Cold War that provided the United States with a submarine-launched ballistic missile capability. Madeline Zimmermann, an expert on defense acquisition, talks through the many trials and tribulations, broken rules, unusual bureaucracy-defeating strategies and a lot more.
We cover:
- Background on the development of ballistic missiles and the nuclear triad during the early stages of the Cold War
- The Navy's struggle to establish its own ballistic missile program, leading to the creation of the Special Projects Office (SPO) for the Polaris project
- The innovative management and acquisition practices used by the SPO, including decentralization, competition among contractors, and flexible requirements
- The role of strong leadership and the creation of the Program Evaluation Review Technique (PERT) as a bureaucratic cover for the project's success
- Lessons from the Polaris program that can be applied to modern defense acquisition, such as encouraging competition among buyers, resisting monopsony, and emphasizing leadership accountability
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Wed, 12 Jun 2024 - 48min - 62 - My Personal History in the Navy
This is a unique episode, in which I have someone interview me. You'll get to hear a little bit about my life story, including my time in the Navy. We also delve into a few issues affecting the modern Navy, my favorite episodes, and what's next for the podcast. It's a unique episode and I hope you enjoy it.
Happy Memorial Day everyone!
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Mon, 27 May 2024 - 48min - 61 - The Penobscot Expedition (pt. 7)
The final episodes of this (somewhat) mini-series.
This is the story of a battle, of a disastrous retreat, and the conspiracy which followed.
This was a naval disaster of epic scale. More than American forty warships and transport vessels were destroyed. Another America naval disaster of this scale would not be repeated until the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7, 1941, more than 162 years later.
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Sat, 18 May 2024 - 14min - 60 - The Penobscot Expedition (pt. 6)
The retreat is in full force! Burning ships, narrow escapes, freeing militiamen, this episode has it all!
This series is the story of a battle, of a disastrous retreat, and the conspiracy which followed.
This was a naval disaster of epic scale. More than American forty warships and transport vessels were destroyed. Another America naval disaster of this scale would not be repeated until the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7, 1941, more than 162 years later.
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Thu, 09 May 2024 - 14min - 59 - The Penobscot Expedition (pt. 5)
The fighting now begins!
This is the story of a battle, of a disastrous retreat, and the conspiracy which followed.
This was a naval disaster of epic scale. More than American forty warships and transport vessels were destroyed. Another America naval disaster of this scale would not be repeated until the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7, 1941, more than 162 years later.
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Thu, 25 Apr 2024 - 21min - 58 - The Penobscot Expedition (pt. 4)
The fighting now begins!
This is the story of a battle, of a disastrous retreat, and the conspiracy which followed.
This was a naval disaster of epic scale. More than American forty warships and transport vessels were destroyed. Another America naval disaster of this scale would not be repeated until the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7, 1941, more than 162 years later.
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Mon, 22 Apr 2024 - 16min - 57 - The Penobscot Expedition (pt. 3)
The fighting now begins!
This is the story of a battle, of a disastrous retreat, and the conspiracy which followed.
This was a naval disaster of epic scale. More than American forty warships and transport vessels were destroyed. Another America naval disaster of this scale would not be repeated until the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7, 1941, more than 162 years later.
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Mon, 15 Apr 2024 - 17min - 56 - The Penobscot Expedition (part 2)
This is the story of a battle, of a disastrous retreat, and the conspiracy which followed.
This was a naval disaster of epic scale. More than American forty warships and transport vessels were destroyed. Another America naval disaster of this scale would not be repeated until the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7, 1941, more than 162 years later.
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Mon, 08 Apr 2024 - 14min - 55 - The Penobscot Expedition (part 1)
This is the story of a battle, of a disastrous retreat, and the conspiracy which followed.
This was a naval disaster of epic scale. More than American forty warships and transport vessels were destroyed. Another America naval disaster of this scale would not be repeated until the Pearl Harbor attacks on December 7, 1941, more than 162 years later.
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Fri, 05 Apr 2024 - 13min - 54 - Warheads on Foreheads: The history of America's drones and quest for precision strike
Today the United States can drone strike it's enemies almost anywhere in the world with non-explosive Hellfire missiles that deploy blades to slice through a target with almost no risk to nearby civilians. It is the latest-and-greatest expression of an American quest for precision strike that began in WWI, carried through (with sometimes disastrous results) WWII, into the nuclear era of the Cold War, and continues today in the drone age.
With my guest James Patton Rogers we talk about the century long American quest for precision, the logic of precision strike when using nuclear weapons, and the emerging second drone age where every ragtag militia and terrorist group will have access to drones that 30 years ago were only obtainable by great powers.
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Wed, 21 Feb 2024 - 1h 06min - 53 - The USS Hornet (CV-8): The Doolittle Raid, Midway, and Guadacanal
The USS Hornet was resting upright on the ocean floor 17,500 feet deep. It was mostly intactwith SBD Dauntless dive-bombers, TBD Devastator torpedo bombers and F4F Wildcat fighters scattered on the sea bed in concentric circles around the wreck.
It had been there for more than 77 years, yet the wooden deck was still intact, minus bomb damage. The AA guns were still pointing up, as if still fending off Japanese "Val" dive bombers.
This episode tells the story of the USS Hornet, told in part by the men who served aboard her in the ship’s less than two years of service before sinking beneath the waves, lost for 77 years.
She was the carrier to launch the Doolittle Raid against Japan. She had fought at Midway and at Guadalcanal. Her planes had sunk half the Japanese carrier fleet, and she had been hit more than two dozen times. This is her story.
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Mon, 12 Feb 2024 - 52min - 52 - Red Sea Attacks and Counterstrikes
US and UK forces have been jointly carrying out a continuous drumbeat of strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen over the past three weeks.
Unfortunately, in the words of President Biden, “Well, when you say are they working, no. Are they going to continue, yes.”
In the meantime while we wait for the strikes to work, the Houthis continue to launch anti-ship missiles at merchant shipping in the southern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, and they have scored a few hits that the US and UK destroyers have not been able to shoot down in time.
We are playing an escalating game of tit-for-tat with the Houthis. We don’t really want to launch an all out air war against them because that would risk drawing in Iran. We could win that fight if it came down to it of course, but if the goal is to open sea lanes, and a war zone pretty definitively closes a sea lane off, so it would be a bit of an own goal in that regard.
In the meantime two U.S. Navy SEALs remain missing and were declared dead after going into the water January 12th during the search and seizure of Houthi weapons sourced from Iran being carried by a vessel in the Arabian Sea.
On the more comical side on 24 January, the Houthi claimed to have attacked and sunk a U.S. destroyer with a missile, which is very not true.
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Mon, 29 Jan 2024 - 17min - 51 - Steam Power and British Spies: The Fulton the First in the War of 1812
The Fulton the First was the world's first steam powered warship. Designed to defend New York Harbor against the British in the War of 1812. She never saw action, but did succeed in scaring the public and British war planners and inspired the first generation of European steam warships who feared foundational shift in naval technology which the Fulton heralded in.
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Sun, 21 Jan 2024 - 18min - 50 - Houthis Attack US Convoy...And We Strike Back! (Breaking News)
Naval history is being made right now. The Houthi rebels in Yemen conducted a drone, cruise missile, and ballistic missile combined attack (with Iranian help) against a guarded convoy near the Bab al-Mandab Strait on January 9th, and just now the US and UK conducted a joint naval strike against the Houthi rebels in Yemen using planes and submarine-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles.
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Fri, 12 Jan 2024 - 17min - 49 - Terror Weapons of the War of 1812
Mines! Torpedoes! Improvised Explosive Devices at sea!
When the War of 1812 broke out there was no way that the United States could sustainably go toe-to-toe with the far larger royal Navy, and so Congress authorized “An Act to encourage the destruction of the armed vessels of war of the enemy.”
The Torpedo Act promised one-half the value of any ship to any private citizen or groups who used “torpedoes, submarine instruments, or any other destructive machine whatever” to destroy a British warship.
The act encouraged private citizens with financial incentives to attack the Royal Navy in new and spectacular fashion, and not just merely prey upon the British merchant marine like privateers.
Of course, The Torpedo Act also created a significant problem: it blurred the lines of who was a legal combatant and who was not by allowing civilians to change the methods of naval war. If American civilians launched attacks against Royal Navy warships, would British commanders respond in kind?
find out all of these answers and more in my conversation with Andrew Fageal.
Andrew's paper on The Torpedo Act: jstor.org/stable/newyorkhist.94.3-4.221
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Mon, 08 Jan 2024 - 19min - 48 - New Year's Deck Log Entries
The poetic New Year's Day deck log entry is a uniquely American tradition which allows the Officer of the Deck to try their hand at poetry as the clock strikes midnight on New Year's Eve. This is a rare bit of fun in a legal document - but because it is a legal document all of the required midnight entry information must be incorporated into the poem as well! I read the 2023 New Year's Deck Log Contest winner, as well as an example which features a sudden call to fire from the battleship New Jersey off the coast of Vietnam in 1969. You can read the 2023 contest winners here: https://www.history.navy.mil/research/archives/resources-for-the-fleet/deck-logs/new-years-contest/annual-contest-announcement.html
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Mon, 01 Jan 2024 - 09min - 47 - The Second Sumatran Expedition
Six years after the First Sumatran Expedition, another attack on American pepper traders occurred. The US East India Station squadron responded with what can only be called a "vigorous" enforcement of American interests on the Sumatran coastline (aka we bombarded and burned the offending village of Muckie to the ground).
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Wed, 20 Dec 2023 - 46min - 46 - AUKUS: Nuclear submarines, quantum computers, and industrial bases
The AUKUS pact between the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia aims to increase naval cooperation between the three countries in the face of a rising China. A major component involves the US and UK operating nuclear-powered submarines out of Australia by 2027, with plans to eventually transfer nuclear submarine technology to enable Australia to have its own nuclear submarine fleet.
Together with Megan Eckstein, naval warfare reporter at Defense News, and Bryant Harris, Congress reporter at Defense News we discuss the goals, benefits, challenges, and political dimensions around AUKUS including building up the submarine and naval industrial bases, training Australian sailors on nuclear reactor operations, congressional concerns around protecting technology, and the role of export controls. We also discuss the pact hopes to boost interoperability and enhanced deterrence to counter China's growing naval capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region.
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Bryant Harris on X: @brykharris
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Wed, 13 Dec 2023 - 38min - 45 - The Geopolitics of Ukraine Aid
Why are we giving money and weapons to Ukraine? In light of the recent news that 48% of Americans think we are giving too much money to Ukraine, I discuss why, in fact, Ukraine aid is the single most cost-effective American foreign policy win since (at least) the end of the Cold War for a whole bunch of reasons: Aid to Ukraine allows the united States to focus on China. It destroys Russia's military for $0.10 on the dollar with zero American lives lost. It revitalizes our defense industrial base while long term hurting Russia’s. It is the morally right thing to do. It shows our allies we will support them in time of need. ...and we can easily can afford it.
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Mon, 27 Nov 2023 - 10min - 44 - Pearl Harbor Third Wave & WWII Fuel Logistics
I talk with guest Sal Mercogliano about fuel logistics during World War Two in the Pacific theater. We discuss the Japanese decision not to target fuel tanks at Pearl Harbor, how the US Navy adapted to fuel shortages in the early years of the war, and compare World War Two naval logistics capabilities to those of the US and Chinese navies today.
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Wed, 15 Nov 2023 - 50min - 43 - Keeping the Planes Flying in WWII
WWII naval aviation was miracle on many levels. The industrial output was immense. The technology evolved by leaps and bounds over the course of just a few years. The pilots got the glory, but the enlisted aviation maintenance rates were the men who kept the planes in the air. Before the war there was no real system to train these men, it was a small community of a few thousand men who learned on the job. But in the first three years of WWII the demands for this skilled labor exploded. The community expanded by more than 20x in three years and developed the complex systems naval aviation continues to rely on today to keep planes in the sky.
Sustaining the Carrier War by Stan Fisher
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Thu, 09 Nov 2023 - 43min - 42 - USS Carney drone shootdown and carrier battle group deployment
It has been an... exciting week in US Navy news and this episode breaks down the two big events:
1 - The USS Carney shot down 15 drones and 9 cruise missiles fired by Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen heading towards Israel.
2- The US currently has two carrier battle groups deployed in the Eastern Mediterranean in addition to other high end military assets to deter Iran from entering the broader conflict. Iranian proxy's have already launched drone attacks and missiles ar US bases across the Middle East and there is a non-trivial chance the US gets pulled into another Middle East conflict.
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Tue, 24 Oct 2023 - 09min - 41 - MacArthur Reconsidered
In this episode I have on James Ellman, the author of “MacArthur Reconsidered,” for an exploration of General Douglas MacArthur's military prowess (or should I say- lack thereof). James challenges the prevailing notion of MacArthur as a military genius as we delve into pivotal moments in MacArthur's career, including WWII and the Korean War. We analyze MacArthur's battlefield performance, examining both victories and defeats, and shed light on how his ability to shape public perception significantly impacted his legacy.
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Tue, 17 Oct 2023 - 1h 20min - 40 - Ancient Naval Warfare...Galleys, Strategy, Tactics & More! (SHORT version)
Ok, so it's not American Naval History, but this episode is too interesting not to post. With Professor Bret Devereaux I discuss the essentially non-Mahanian nature of ancient naval warfare. Because galleys were both cheap to build (but expensive to maintain) and had very limited operational endurance, the missions they could perform and the strategic use of galley navies was extremely different than Age of Sail and modern navies. For anyone used to thinking about naval power in the modern era this is going to be a paradigm shifting discussion!
Note: This is the short version of this episode which cuts out about 20 minutes of interesting side discussions. If you want to listen to a version with a few interesting tangents, check out the long version of this episode, it should be in your podcast feed immediately after this episode.
Check out Bret's excellent blog at acoup.blog
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Tue, 10 Oct 2023 - 52min - 39 - Ancient Naval Warfare...Galleys, Strategy, Tactics & More! (LONG version)
Ok, so it's not American Naval History, but this episode is too interesting not to post. With Professor Bret Devereaux I discuss the essentially non-Mahanian nature of ancient naval warfare. Because galleys were both cheap to build (but expensive to maintain) and had very limited operational endurance, the missions they could perform and the strategic use of galley navies was extremely different than Age of Sail and modern navies. For anyone used to thinking about naval power in the modern era this is going to be a paradigm shifting discussion!
Note: This is the long version of this episode containing about 20 minutes of interesting side discussions. If you want to listen to a more compact discussion, check out the short version of this episode, it should be in your podcast feed immediately before this episode.
Check out Bret's excellent blog at acoup.blog
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Tue, 10 Oct 2023 - 1h 14min - 38 - Dewey, the New Navy, and the Spanish American War
For a brief, glorious moment, the US Navy in 1865 was the biggest and most advanced in the world. It was an inflection moment in the history of naval shipbuilding. Sails were out, steam power, armor, and modern gunnery was in. But post-war, the United States took a 20-year innovation hiatus allowing the rest of the world to pass us by during this technological inflection point, only to begin to roar back in the 1880s, build a Navy worthy of the nation, defeated the Spanish, and became one of the great powers of the world. This is that story.
A New Force at Seaby David A. Smith
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Mon, 21 Aug 2023 - 44min - 37 - Pre-WWII Neutrality Patrols: Battling Wolfpacks in the North Atlantic Before Pearl Harbor
Join us on the U.S. Naval History Podcast as we explore the lesser-known prelude to World War Two in the North Atlantic. The not-so-neutral "neutrality patrols" in the North Atlantic were the United States Navy's prelude to WWII. They resulted in an escalating but undeclared shooting war with the German Kriegsmarine before the attack on Pearl Harbor. We talk about the strategic decisions, political implications, and how President Roosevelt and senior U.S. political leaders grappled with the possibility of the Royal Navy falling into German hands. These intense patrols featured the first confrontations between American and German naval forces, from the first exchange of live ammunition to Roosevelt's fiery declaration of shooting first.
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Mon, 07 Aug 2023 - 21min - 36 - Up Against the Rocks: The Wreck of the Memphis
In this episode of the U.S. Naval History Podcast, we tell the story of the sinking of the USS Memphis (/Tennessee!), recounting the tragic events leading to the ship's demise as it was dashed against the rocks of the Dominican Republic by rogue waves. Heroic acts by the crew saved most aboard, and this episode highlights the three sailors who earned Medals of Honor for their actions that day.
Released on the anniversary of her wrecking.
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Tue, 29 Aug 2023 - 29min - 35 - South From Corregidor
Using a 36-foot motor launch, the 18 sailors, led by Lieutenant Commander John Morrill began their 2,000-mile journey through Japanese infested waters. With only a watch, compass, homemade sextant and a few maps it was an incredible feat of navigation. Their story is one of great audacity, where the generosity and bravery of the Filipino people, along with sheer luck played an integral role in the outcome of events.
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This audio of Lyle Bercier was originally filmed and produced by the Witness to War Foundation, Inc. Ownership of this footage still resides with Witness to War. Further usage requires permission from Witness to War Foundation, Inc. directly. www.WitnessToWar.org
Tue, 26 Sep 2023 - 37min - 34 - Island Hopping Q&A (and how will this apply in the SCS?)
In this episode I answer a few questions that someone sent me via email on the concept of "unsinkable aircraft carriers" in the context of both WWII and China's artificial islands in the South China Sea. I elaborate on the parallels with WWII, explore how Japan's strategy of using islands as unsinkable carriers ultimately failed due to logistical challenges and limited plane production, and how that will differ from a US-China war. The episode also examines the advantages and disadvantages of islands compared to traditional carriers, considering factors such as repairability, defense, logistics, vulnerability, and concentration of forces.
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Tue, 18 Jul 2023 - 12min - 33 - USS Forrestal fire
On 29 July 1967, the USS Forrestal experienced a severe fire while operating on Yankee Station off the coast of North Vietnam that killed 134 Sailors, injured 161 more, and destroyed 21 aircraft. This was (and remains) the second worst loss of life on a U.S. Navy ship since World War II. The disaster resulted in a very long list of lessons learned -many of which can be better classified as “lessons forgotten” from carrier fires during World War II. This time, there was a very intentional institutional effort to cement these lessons into the Navy’s damage control psyche, training, and procedures which transformed the U.S. Navy’s approach to firefighting, damage control, and ordnance handling in the 50 years since the Forrestal disaster.
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Sat, 29 Jul 2023 - 19min - 32 - The First Sumatran Expedition
Right after the Barbary Wars finished up, a new threat to American commerce emerged, this time around the world in Southeast Asia. This is the story of the expedition that was sent more than 12,000 miles across the Atlantic and Indian Oceans to conduct America's first military expedition in Asia to avenge the capture of the Friendshipand slaughter of her crew.
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Tue, 12 Sep 2023 - 29min - 31 - 28- The South China Sea with Rear Admiral Michael Studeman
RADM Mike Studeman, the the Commander of the Office of Naval Intelligence and the Director of the National Maritime Intelligence Integration Office talks about China’s grand plan for the South China Sea, Xi Jinping and the psychology of authoritarian states, how the Chinese military may have been the tail wagging the dog in China’s recent border skirmishes with India, who would/would not side with the United States in a fight over Taiwan, the consequences for China if they do invade Taiwan, and a whole lot more.
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Tue, 04 Jul 2023 - 1h 08min - 30 - 27- The South China Sea, pt. 3: FONOPs and The Law of the Sea
In this episode of the US Naval History podcast's South China Sea miniseries, we delve into the Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPs) and China's illegal maritime claims. I dissect the misleading claims made by the China Global Television Network and explore the significance of different maritime features, such as islands, rocks, and low tide elevations, and the rights they grant to countries under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. Discover why China's artificial islands fail to establish legal entitlements and how FONOPs aim to uphold international maritime rules.
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Mon, 05 Jun 2023 - 44min - 29 - 26- The South China Sea, pt. 2: The Maritime Militia and other Gray Zone Activities
What force wears uniforms, has their boats built by the government, are paid by the government, and attacks an enemy's boats and ships? No...not the Navy. We're talking about China's Maritime Militia in the South China Sea. The maritime militia is inextricably aligned with Xi Jinping's rise to power and assertion of China's "rights" to all of the territory inside of the nine dashed lines. Pushing back against the maritime militia (technically "innocent fishermen") has been a ige challenge for the United States and every other country in the region over the past 30 years. This is the story of the rise of China's maritime militia, and other gray zone tactics in the South China Sea. Enjoy.
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Mon, 01 May 2023 - 40min - 28 - 25- The South China Sea, pt. 1
The South China Sea is home to numerous disputed islands, reefs, and shoals, which have been the subject of territorial claims and military standoffs between China and its neighboring countries, including Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, and Malaysia. In this episode, we will delve into the complex history of the South China Sea conflict, exploring its origins, key events, and the current state of affairs, as well as the geopolitical and economic implications of this ongoing dispute.
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Thu, 13 Apr 2023 - 28min - 27 - Breaking News Podcast: China to inspect ships in Taiwan Strait, grim scenarios possible
This is an breaking news podcast episode giving my brief thoughts and fears about the news that China will begin to inspect ships in Taiwan Strait. Taiwan says won't cooperate as this would be a major sovereignty violation. This has ling been my feared most-likely scenario for the beginnings of a US/China hot war over the Taiwan Strait. I really hope this is not the start of something hot, but looking back in 100 years, this may be noted as the day things started to go really off the rails for Cold War 2.0, if we're even lucky enough to call it a Cold War.
Link to Reuters article: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/china-inspect-ships-taiwan-strait-taiwan-says-wont-cooperate-2023-04-06/
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Thu, 06 Apr 2023 - 14min - 26 - 24- Fightin' Pirates with RADM McKnight
In this episode I talk with Rear Admiral Terry McKnight about his time combating Somali piracy off the Gulf of Aden. Admiral McKnight was the first commander of CTF 151, the multinational naval task force set up to combat the threat of piracy for the first time since almost two centuries. We talk about the causes of piracy in Somalia, the strategies used to combat it, international politics surrounding the effort, a few spectacular heists, and new emerging pirate threats around the world.
RADM McKnight's book, Pirate Alley: https://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Alley-Commanding-Force-Somalia/dp/1612511341https://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Alley-Commanding-Force-Somalia/dp/1612511341
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Tue, 28 Feb 2023 - 46min - 25 - 23- What Happens If/When China Invades Taiwan...and Who Would Win?
I have gotten a few questions which amount to "what will happen if China invades Taiwan?" and this is my attempt at an answer. It's obviously a lot of guesswork, but I think that it is fair to say that a massive worldwide economic and geopolitical upheaval is likely. Supply chains will be massively disrupted and a deep recession or even Great Depression 2.0 are likely outcomes. If China does manage to take Taiwan, they will probably face a insurgency that I'm sure the US government will be happy to help along, in addition to dealing with massive sanctions.
The second half of the episode is a guest post by the excellent podcast ChinaTalk. The episode talks with Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow and director of research at Brookings where specializes in U.S. defense strategy, the use of military force, and American national security policy about:
The limits of scenarios that predict the outcome of a China-Taiwan conflict.
What are intercontinental rail guns?
How sports teams that play each other in the same year can have different outcomes - and what this says about predictability.
Given all this, what’s the point of modelling exercises?
Go subscribe to ChinaTalk if you have not already, it's a great podcast for anyone interested in Chinese-American relations.
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Wed, 08 Feb 2023 - 1h 21min - 24 - 22- WWII Lessons for a Rising China with Ian W. Toll
In this episode I talk with Ian W. Toll, one of if not the best American naval historian, about the road to war decision making by Japanese leaders, the lessons learned and how they were applied by US and Japanese naval leaders during the war, and the strategic calculus of Japanese, American, and Soviet governments in the final year of the war. We discuss how each of these topics may parallel decision making by American and Chinese leaders in the run up to a potential hot war and any decision by the CCP to invade Taiwan, and the lessons we can draw from WWII to any near-future Pacific conflict. We close on a discussion about the applicability of a haunting possibility: that in the event of a Pacific conflict between the US and China, the United States Navy may find itself in the role of the Imperial Japanese Navy during WWII: better trained, well prepared at the outset, but lacking the industrial strength to sustain a war of attrition, and thus doomed to lose the long war.Ian Toll's books (click here)
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Mon, 30 Jan 2023 - 1h 20min - 23 - 21- The Philippine Insurgency and the Boxer Rebellion
In this episode I talk with Professor David Silbey about the strategic rationale behind the Spanish American War, the Philippine Insurgency and the anti-guerrilla tactics the army honed on the frontier against Native Americans to fight the insurgency, and the boxer Rebellion in China. We discuss how the Boxer Rebellion echoes in Chinese policy towards the world today and dive into some of the strategic calculus that the Chinese government and military may be making today, and why they feel they need a navy and zone of influence. Tune in for a fascinating discussion.
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Sat, 14 Jan 2023 - 1h 10min - 22 - 20- When America First Met China
In this episode I talk with historian Eric Jay Dolin about his research on the first decades of America's relationship with China as a new nation. It is the story of global markets, exploration, desperation, drugs, and war which set against the course of America's rise and China's decline in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, setting the stage for this third season of the US Naval History Podcast.
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Tue, 03 Jan 2023 - 45min - 21 - Nautical Language- Keelhauling, Booty, Grog, and all the fun words we have thanks the sea
This is a very fun crossover episode with Because Language (give them a listen!) where we talk and joke about the many expressions we use come from the nautical domain. But are they nautical? Are they really?
Somewhat different than the usual episode, but we cover a lot of interesting history, from Vikings, to historical punishments at sea, trade, pirates, and a whole lot more!Email me at: usnavalhistorypodcast@gmail.com
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Thu, 08 Dec 2022 - 1h 27min - 20 - 19- The War on Terror and a Hyperpower Navy
The Soviet Union crumbled and left the United States Navy the undisputed greatest naval power on earth. Our naval might surpassed every other nation's combined. Naval might allowed the combined arms masterpiece of the first Gulf War, lightening-fast deployment to Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, and the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but these small wars proved to be disastrous to the surface fleet which saw underinvestment and readiness fall, even as SEAL Teams honed their deadly craft on America’s enemies around the world.
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Tue, 06 Dec 2022 - 34min - 19 - Defend Us in Battle: The True Story of MA2 Navy SEAL Medal of Honor Recipient Michael A. Monsoor
On September 29, 2006, Michael Monsoor and three SEAL snipers watched vigilantly for enemy activity from their rooftop post in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. When a grenade thrown from insurgents bounced off Michael's chest, he could have escaped. Instead, he threw himself onto the live grenade, shielding his fellow soldiers from the immediate explosion. Michael died thirty minutes later, having made the ultimate sacrifice.
This is a somewhat unusual episode of the US Naval History Podcast- it is the first time I am not covering a specific era but a person, and the first time I have guests on the podcast. this episode discusses the life, mission, and ongoing legacy of one of our nation's great heroes is Rose Rea, co-author of Defend Us in Battle and retired US Navy CAPT Scott Smith who previously the commissioning Commanding Officer of the USS Michael Monsoor, one of three ultra-modern Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyers.
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Tue, 08 Nov 2022 - 36min - 18 - 18- Cold War Submarine Operations: Deterance, Espionage, Nuclear Power and Commando Landings
This episode tells the story of the the submarine force during the Cold War, where it was the coldest of cold forces, often operating in the Arctic waters off the Soviet coastline and far from the traditional Cold War hotspots. This is the story of a conventional force turning into a nuclear one, led by Admiral Rickover, with all of the genius and eccentricities he brought with him. Under his watch, the submarine force was transformed into the nation's primary nuclear deterrence shield and a covert espionage platform that spied on and played deadly games of cat-and-mouse with their Soviet counterparts.
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Fri, 14 Oct 2022 - 28min - 16 - 16- The Vietnam War, pt. 2- Brownwater Operations
This episode tells the story of the the Vietnam War brownwater operations, the fighting in the marshes, rivers, the deltas, and creeks of North and South Vietnam. This is also the story of the birth and formative operations of Navy SEAL teams in Vietnam, from daring POW rescue operations, to hostage snatch-and-grab operations taken beneath covering naval gunfire from destroyers offshore.
This is that story...
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Thu, 18 Aug 2022 - 52min - 15 - 15- The Vietnam War, pt. 1- Bluewater Operations
This episode tells the story of the the Vietnam War at sea, of the most intense air battles of the Cold War, of bombardments against the Vietnamese coastline, and the politics and history behind a war that was unpopular from day one and split the nation in two.
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Right after the end of World War Two, the Viet Minh, a communist-led anti imperialist party and army led by Ho Chi Minh claimed control of almost all of the country in the power vacuum immediately after the Japanese surrender. A year later, in 1946 the revived French government sent troops back to occupy its former colony of Vietnam and crushed Ho Chi Minh’s new government, forcing his military to abandon the cities for the jungles, mountains, and countryside. Based on anticolonial principles the United States had initially opposed the French recolonization of Indochina but the victory of the communist just north of Vietnam in the Chinese civil war drove the Truman and Eisenhower administrations to support the French in their war against the Viet Minh.
The French were defeated, but we soon took their place. This is that story...
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Mon, 11 Jul 2022 - 1h 13min - 14 - 14- The Cuban Missile Crisis
This episode finishes the story of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Khrushchev brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation.
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With the benefit of secret tapes which revealed the tense decision-making of President Kennedy and his advisors, as well as the secret archives of the Soviet Union that opened up after the end of the Cold War we know that General Maxwell Taylor, Kennedy’s Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the highest-ranking officer in the United States military, advised Kennedy to launch massive airstrikes against Cuba with no advance warning in order to disable the Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba before they became operational and a threat to the US homeland. We alsonow know that some of the missiles were, in fact, already operational and ready to launch on short notice. The Air Force Chief of Staff, General Curtis Lemay told Kennedy, quote, “we don’t have any choice other than direct military action.” Of course, with 20/20 hindsight, we did. Had different choices been made then by President Kennedy, you would likely not be listening to this podcast here today. There probably would not be any podcasts at all. There may not be many humans left at all. October and November 1962 of the Cuban Missile Crisis were probably the most dangerous days in recorded human history. This is the story.
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Sun, 29 May 2022 - 17min - 13 - 13- The Korean War
This episode starts Season 2 of the United States Naval History podcast, covering the Cold War, an era of small wars and big bombs looming over a geopolitical tinderbox balanced between east and west, between totalitarian communism and more or less liberal, more or less democracy.
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The Korean was a conflict which ripped apart WWII alliances for good and sent American GIs and sailors into direct, meat grinding conflict with their North Korean and Chinese counterparts just five years after the horror of WWII. This episode tells the hot beginnings of the Cold War, of one of the most ambitious and successful amphibious invasions of all time, of the United States Navy’s role in the conflict, and the stories of several veterans who survived the fighting there more than seventy years ago.
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Mon, 16 May 2022 - 37min - 12 - 12- WWII in the Pacific, part 2
This episode finishes the story of the greatest naval war in world history, stretching across tens of millions of square miles of ocean, involving thousands of warships, dozens of carrier battles, submarine ambushes, bloody beach landings and harrowing night actions on land and at sea.
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Listen to the story of the assassination of Japanese Admiral Yamamoto, how American submarine warfare succeeded where German submarine warfare failed, the Gilbert and Marshall Island Campaigns (including the bloody assault on Tarawa), the Mariana Campaign, the Battle of the Philippine Sea, and finally bombings and geopolitics which eventually forced Japan to accept surrender.Email me at: typhoonbearing@gmail.com
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Mon, 04 Jan 2021 - 1h 02min - 11 - 11- WWII in the Pacific, part 1
WWII in the Pacific tells the story of the greatest naval war in world history, stretching across tens of millions of square miles of ocean, involving thousands of warships, dozens of carrier battles, submarine ambushes, bloody beach landings and harrowing night actions on land and at sea.
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This episode starts with some background on why the Japanese launched the attack on Pearl Harbor before talking about the attack on Pearl Harbor itself.Learn about the Doolittle Raid and hear part of an interview with James Doolittle on the raid's effects.
Next up is the Battle of the Coral Sea, which first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other and the first in which the opposing ships neither sighted nor fired directly upon one another.
The Battle of Midway, one of the most consequential naval battles in world history, tuned the tide in the Pacific as three American carriers faced off against four Japanese attacking carriers.And finally, the Guadalcanal campaign checked Japanese advances in the South Pacific.
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Sun, 27 Dec 2020 - 43min - 10 - 10- WWII in the Atlantic and Mediterranean
Starting more than two years before the United States entered WWII following the attack on Pearl Harbor, this episode tells the story of WWII in the Atlantic and Mediterranean theaters, covering the Battle of the Atlantic, the Sinking of the Bismarck, the breaking of the Enigma codes, and all the way up to D-Day, the invasion of northern France on June 6th, 1944.
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Sun, 20 Dec 2020 - 1h 00min - 9 - 9- The Interwar Years
After WWI ended in November of 1918, the victorious world powers looked around realized that even the winners were losers. Yea, Britain and France gained a bunch of colonies and protectorates from the defeated Central Powers, and yeah they were theoretically going to get a reparations payday down the road, but HOLY SHIT, if you’ll excuse the language, it was not freaking worth it. France alone suffered over a million killed in action with another more than four million wounded. Europe’s economy was destroyed, governments had taken on mind-boggling amounts of debt to fight the war, and the fundamental problem of Great Power competition which led to the war had not been fundamentally altered.
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The Interwar Period is the roughly twenty-one-year period between the end of WWI in 1918 and the start of WWII proper in 1939. During this period, we obviously had the roaring 20s followed by the Great Depression. This episode will cover four topics: first, the Washington and London Naval Treaties which laid out the sizes and types of navies each major naval power could wield; second, the technological shifts the treaties accelerated, specifically the development of aircraft carriers and naval aviation; third, the war planning the United States was doing during this period, and last just a little bit about what the Marine Corps was doing during this period and how that would prove to be significant during WWII.
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Sun, 22 Nov 2020 - 12min - 8 - 8- World War One and a new century (ft. the Battle of Jutland)
This episode covers the United States as it emerges as a great power on the world stage. We took colonies from Spain and under young President Theodore Roosevelt the Navy expands to match out new Great Power status.
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Between the Spanish American War and WWI the Great White Fleet circumnavigates the globe in a display of naval power, the United States builds the Panama Canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, enforces our Monroe Doctrine more forcefully with the Roosevelt Corollary and helps put down the Boxer Rebellion in China.
This episode also features a good overview of THE GREATEST BATTLESHIP BATTLE in world history. The Battle of Jutland does not involve any Americans, but it is just cool enough to be featured anyway. The Marine's role in WWI is also covered, as is the emergence of air power for the first time.
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Mon, 16 Nov 2020 - 50min - 7 - 7- The Spanish American War and the New Navy
At the end of the Civil War the United States was (very briefly) a world-class naval power. But in the midst of a worldwide naval revolution, the United States failed to invest in this technological change after the war ended and quickly fell behind as the country focused on westward expansion. In the nick of time, Congress invested in the dilapidated United States Navy and began the process of creating a force to again be respected. In this episode, the United States will emerge as a world power and strip Spain of the last vestiges of empire in lopsided Spanish American War.
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Sun, 08 Nov 2020 - 41min - 6 - 6- Civil War: Anacondas, Ironclads and the River War
Civil War was a titanic conflict. The Navy began the Civil War with only 42 ships in active service and orders to blockade 3,500 miles of coastline and seize control of the South’s rivers. Over then next four years the Union navy would swell to almost 700 warships, lead the world technologically, and play a vital part in reuniting the nation in the bloodiest war the United States has ever fought. The war can also be thought of as the first modern war, a total war where technology, industry, and joint operations played decisive roles and marked a clear transition from the Napoleonic era of horse and infantry line tactic warfare, into the era of screaming shells, trenches, and the scorched earth of the 20th century.
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Sun, 01 Nov 2020 - 35min - 5 - 5- Perry Opens Japan
So long as the Sun shall warm the earth, let no Christian dare come to Japan; and, let all know that the King of Spain himself, or his Christian’s God…if he violates this command shall pay with his head. -Shogun’s Edict of 1638
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For more than two centuries before Perry arrived Japan was a closed land to Westerners. But a confluence of money and world politics led President Fillmore to send Mexican-American War veteran Matthew Perry to Japan with instructions to open the country to American commerce and sailors. Perry got the job done and ushered in the Meiji Restoration, an era in Japanese history where the country transformed itself at breakneck pace from technological backwater to great power. The ripple effects of this opening were felt most strongly in 1941 when a rising Japan contested the United States Navy for control of the Pacific, and continues to be felt today as our ally in the United States' emerging contest with China.
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Sun, 25 Oct 2020 - 18min - 4 - 4- Steamships, Pirates, and the Mexican-American War
This week's episode is about the Navy’s role in the Mexican American-War before circling back to talk about a couple piracy smack-downs, trade, and the Navy’s role as the game-changing naval revolution that the steam engines proved to be during this period.
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Sun, 11 Oct 2020 - 26min - 3 - 3- The War of 1812
Featuring bloody battles, heroic victories, and a few embarrassing defeats!
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After fighting the Quasi-War with France over the rights of American sailors and merchants at sea, we were now facing the same issues with the British. This episode traces the events leading up to the War of 1812, sometimes referred to as the Second War of Independence, against the Royal Navy which was in its wartime 1,000-ship prime and tells the story of how we "won" (ok, tied...or actually just didn't completely lose) this Second War for Independence thanks to the United States Navy.
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Sun, 04 Oct 2020 - 46min - 2 - 2- The Quasi-War and Barbary Coast Pirates
Right as we gain our independence, the Napoleonic Wars break out in Europe leading to a brief, undeclared war against our former ally France. Following the Quasi-War, you'll hear about US Navy actions in the Barbary Wars against the pirate states of North Africa featuring bribery, coups, battles, and the story of what legendary British Admiral Nelson called “the most bold and daring act of the age.”
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Sun, 27 Sep 2020 - 35min - 1 - 1: The Revolutionary War at Sea
This is the first episode of an overview of US Naval History. Each episode will cover an era of naval history including some of the key American battles.
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This episode will begin at the beginning, with the United States Navy before there even was a United States of America, back when we were a group of 13 colonies using a motley alliance of state navies, the Continental Navy, privateers and the navies of our European allies to win our independence and defeat the globe-spanning, indisputably greatest naval power on earth at the time, the Royal Navy.
You will hear about John Paul Jones' raid on the English coast and his battle against the HMS Serapis,where he fought a British warship which outclassed his in every way, except for the one that mattered in the end, the will of her captain to fight.
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