The Proceedings Podcast
U.S. Naval Institute
The Naval Institute is a private, not-for-profit educational institution whose mission is to provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Every week on the Proceedings Podcast, the Naval Institute's Director of Outreach, Ward Carroll, and the Editor-in-Chief of Proceedings, Bill Hamblet, talk about what's happening in the Sea Services, latest news from USNI News, stories in Proceedings and Naval History magazines, and interview Naval Institute authors. Deputy Editor Bill Bray joins the cast from time to time as well.
Every week on the Proceedings Podcast, the Naval Institute's Director of Outreach, Ward Carroll, and the Editor-in-Chief of Proceedings, Bill Hamblet, talk about what's happening in the Sea Services, latest news from USNI News, stories in Proceedings and Naval History magazines, and interview Naval Institute authors. Deputy Editor Bill Bray joins the cast from time to time as well.
Episodes
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Aug 13, 2021 • 47min
Proceedings Podcast Episode 234 - How Banana Wars Shaped the Corps
Mark Folse talks about how, from the 1890s to the 1930s, a series of tropic-zone small wars molded the evolving doctrine of the U.S. Marine Corps.
More here: https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2021/august/never-known-day-peace
Aug 9, 2021 • 34min
Proceedings Podcast Episode 233 - LCS, NGAD, FFG-62, and Ford Class News Update
Sam Lagrone, USNI News editor-in-chief, reviews the latest headlines from Sea, Air, Space with details on LCS, NGAD, FFG-62, and CVN-78.
Jul 23, 2021 • 44min
Proceedings Podcast Episode 232 - Anchors Aweigh . . . at Gettysburg
Historian Jeff Harding explains how the bloodiest land battle ever fought on American soil and the decisive clash of the Civil War had a remarkable number of U.S. Navy connections.
More here: https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2021/august/anchors-aweigh-gettysburg
Jul 16, 2021 • 34min
Proceedings Podcast Episode 231 - Synthetic Bioweapons are Coming
Michael Knutzen discusses how gene-editing advances pose a serious threat.
More here: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2021/june/synthetic-bioweapons-are-coming
Jul 8, 2021 • 36min
Proceedings Podcast Episode 230 - Raiding Navies of the Civil War
Historian Craig Symonds discusses how naval forces on both sides of the Civil War had a profound impact on America's bloodiest conflict.
For more: https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2021/june/blockading-raiding-navies-civil-war
Jun 23, 2021 • 35min
Proceedings Podcast Episode 229 - Black Saturday Declassified
27 October 1962—the peak of the Cuban Missile Crisis—could be called the most dangerous day in human history. Thanks to a submariner, Armageddon likely was averted. Historian Doug Gilbert explains the details.
More here: https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2021/june/black-saturday-declassified
Jun 16, 2021 • 33min
Proceedings Podcast Episode 228 - Red Navy in World War II
Vince O'Hara discusses how the Red Navy was crucial to the success of the Soviet Union in World War II, something the history books tend to leave out.
More here: https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2021/june/forgotten-victor
Jun 14, 2021 • 39min
Proceedings Podcast (FTD) Episode 227 - Insights from an Enlisted Thought Leader
Retired U.S. Navy senior chief and former From the Deckplates columnist Jim Murphy takes time with Paul to discuss how enlisted involvement in the USNI forum has expanded, the struggles to build awareness of the reach of writing in the CPO Mess, and broader enlisted force, and his assessment of the forum today.
Listeners can subscribe to the To the Deckplates Newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/usni/deckplates
Jun 11, 2021 • 39min
Proceedings Podcast Episode 226 - We Need a MK VII to Replace the MK VI
As competition with a rival great power increases, the Navy finds itself on the verge of having no small patrol craft. If the Mk VI was gone before we even knew her, LCDR Jordan Bradford talks about how it is time to ponder what a Mk VII design should entail.
More here: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2021/may/mk-vi-dead-long-live-mk-vii
Jun 4, 2021 • 50min
Proceedings Podcast Episode 225 - What is a Navy For?
Dr. Nick Lambert discusses his thesis that strategic purpose is not the same thing as operational necessities, a topic he addresses in an article that's part of the American Sea Power Project.
More here: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2021/april/what-navy
