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In this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, Dr. Eric Labs and Dr. Matthew Funaiole join us to explore the widening gap in U.S.-China shipbuilding capabilities. They begin by examining the evolution in U.S.-China shipbuilding industrial capacity since World War II. Dr. Labs points out that while China's shipbuilding industrial capacity has grown substantially due to large-scale state subsidies and government support, the U.S. has steadily fallen behind in production capacity since the 1960s with the rise of Japan and South Korea shipbuilding industries and the end of construction differential subsidies in the early 1980s. Dr. Funaiole further emphasizes that this industrial capacity disparity is particularly concerning as many foreign companies from Europe, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are purchasing commercial ships from Chinese shipyards, which effectively offsets Chinese naval shipbuilding production costs and facilitates technological transfer. Both guests warn that this widening shipbuilding gap could impact U.S. warfighting and logistics capacity in a prolonged conflict. Dr. Labs concludes with four policy options for the U.S.to consider, including improving labor issues and enhancing workforce attrition within the shipbuilding industry, legislation changes to allow the U.S. to purchase warships from allies, designing smaller warships, and incorporating unmanned maritime platforms in the navy. Finally, Dr. Funaiole recommends a change in policy approach that combines national security and economic outcomes that specifically target Chinese shipyards that are dual use in nature, while ensuring sustained efforts in revamping the U.S. shipbuilding industry across future administrations. Dr. Eric Labs is the Senior Analyst for Naval Forces and Weapons at the Congressional Budget Office in Washington, D.C. He specializes in issues related to the procurement, budgeting, and sizing of the forces for the Department of the Navy.  Dr. Labs has testified before Congress numerous times and published many reports under the auspices of the Congressional Budget Office as well as articles and papers in academic journals and conferences, including the U.S. Naval Institute's Proceedings, Sea Power magazine, the Naval War College Review, and Security Studies. He has given presentations to a variety of industry, government, and academic audiences. Dr. Matthew P. Funaiole is vice president of the iDeas Lab, Andreas C. Dracopoulos Chair in Innovation, and senior fellow in the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He specializes in using data-driven research to address complex policy issues, with a focus on Chinese foreign policy, dual-use technology, and maritime trade. In 2022, he launched the “Hidden Reach” initiative, which leverages open-source intelligence to uncover poorly understood sources of Chinese influence and examine how China advances its strategic interests through commercial and scientific ventures. From late 2015 through mid-2020, he was the principal researcher for the ChinaPower website. Prior to joining CSIS, Dr. Funaiole taught international relations and foreign policy analysis at the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland, where he also completed his doctoral research. 

Karl von Müller, capitano dell'incrociatore leggero SMS Emden, si porta nell'Oceano Indiano per portare avanti una solitaria guerra di corsa contro i traffici mercantili alleati. I risultati che ottiene rendono lui e la sua nave una vera celebrità in Germania, e uno spauracchio nel Regno Unito.Seguimi su Instagram: @laguerragrande_podcastSe vuoi contribuire con una donazione sul conto PayPal: podcastlaguerragrande@gmail.comScritto e condotto da Andrea BassoMontaggio e audio: Andrea BassoFonti dell'episodio:Australian War MemorialMike Carlton, First Victory: 1914. Australia, Heinemann, 2013Vic Cassells, The Capital Ships: Their Battles and their Badges, Simon & Schuster, 2000Cocos, TreccaniJ. Corbett, Naval Operations. History of the Great War based on Official Documents, Imperial War Museum, 2009Todd Crowell, Bloody Dawn in Penang, Naval History, U. S. Naval Institute, 2013Denis Fairfax, John Collings Glossop (1871–1934), Australian Dictionary of Biography, 1983Friedrich Forstmeier, SMS Emden, Small Protected Cruiser 1906—1914, Warship Profile 25, Profile Publications, 1972Tom Frame, No Pleasure Cruise: The Story of the Royal Australian Navy, Allen & Unwin, 2004Erich Gröner, German Warships 1815–1945, Naval Institute Press, 1990Paul Halpern, Naval History of World War I, U. C. L. P., 1994Hans Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz, Die Deutschen Kriegsschiffe: Biographien – ein Spiegel der Marinegeschichte von 1815 bis zur Gegenwart, Mundus Verlag, 1993David Howarth, Le corazzate, Mondadori, 1988Arthur Jose, The Royal Australian Navy, 1914–1918. Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Angus & Robertson, 1941John Keegan, Intelligence in War, Vintage Books, 2004V.V. Khromov, Kreysera tipa "Zhemchug", Morskaya Kollekcya, 2005Gerhard Koop, Klaus-Peter Schmolke, German light cruisers of World War II: Emden, Königsberg, Karlsruhe, Köln, Leipzig, Nürnberg, Naval Institute Press, 2002V. Lobichin, I. Stoljarov, I. Aladin, Еще раз о гибели крейсера «Жемчуг», Istoricheski Rosvik, 1996R. K. Lochner, The Last Gentleman of War. The Raider Exploits of the Cruiser Emden, Naval Institute Press, 1988Francis March, History of the World War, U. P. U. S. C., 1919 Hans Mehl, Naval Guns: 500 Years of Ship and Coastal Artillery, Naval Institute Press, 2002Narrative of the Proceedings of H.M.A.S. Sydney, Naval Review, 1915Ajay Saini, How German cruiser ‘Emden' struck terror in the heart of the British Empire, and became a Tamil word, The Hindu, 2020Gary Staff, Battle on the Seven Seas, Pen & Sword Maritime, 2011The Emden at Panang, The New York Times, 1914The War at Sea, The Independent, 9 November 1914Tragedy in Penang, 2017Dan Van der Vat, Gentlemen of War, The Amazing Story of Captain Karl von Müller and the SMS Emden, William Morrow and Company, 1984Keith Yates, Graf Spee's Raiders: Challenge to the Royal Navy, 1914–1915, Naval Institute Press, 1995In copertina: gruppo di marinai (o di nativi?) in posa di fronte al relitto dell'Emden arenato alle isole Cocos, anni '20 o '30, foto di Allan Green.

John Quarstein and Robert Worden join Dr. Stephen Phillips to discuss their book, From Ironclads to Admiral: John Lorimer Worden and Naval Leadership. This important work is a detailed biography with emphasis on Worden's service on USS Monitor and other ironclads during the Civil War. Equally interesting is Worden's time as Superintendent at the U.S. Naval Academy and as a founding member, with membership number 1, of the U.S. Naval Institute.

This week we discuss the loss of the USS Turner, a Gleaves-class destroyer that sank off of New York City in January 1944. **Jump to around 13:30 to get right into the action**Sources: "Gleaves class destroyers (1940)." https://naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/us/gleaves-class-destroyers.phpNaczi, Robert F. "Special: Tragedy Strikes in New York Harbor." U.S. Naval Institute, December 1995, https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1995/december/special-tragedy-strikes-new-york-harborVerga, Christopher. "Sinking of the U.S.S. Turner: Tragedy, Heroism, and Mystery." Fire Island News, 26 Dec 2024. https://www.fireislandnews.com/history/sinking-of-the-u-s-s-turner-tragedy-heroism-and-mystery/#:~:text=Huus%20rapidly%20mobilized%20his%20crew,survivors%20before%20additional%20help%20arrivedSupport the show

La guerra sui mari si sviluppa nell'Adriatico, fra l'Austria-Ungheria, la Francia e il Montenegro, ma anche nel Mare del Nord, dove gli Uboot della Kaiserliche Marine ottengono la loro consacrazione definitiva. Il sommergibile diviene l'arma definitiva della Germania per la prosecuzione della propria guerra navale.Seguimi su Instagram: @laguerragrande_podcastSe vuoi contribuire con una donazione sul conto PayPal: podcastlaguerragrande@gmail.comScritto e condotto da Andrea BassoMontaggio e audio: Andrea BassoFonti dell'episodio:Annuaire de la Marine, 1915Günter Bischof, Ferdinand Karlhofer, Nicole-Melanie Goll, Samuel R. Williamson, ‘Our Weddigen.' On the Construction of the War Hero in the k.u.k. Army.: The ‘Naval Hero' Egon Lerch as an Example, 1914: Austria-Hungary, the Origins, and the First Year of World War I, Univertity of New Orleans Press, 2014Douglas Botting, I sommergibili, Mondadori, 1988 Heiko Brendel, Lovćen, 1914-1918 Online, 2014British Merchant Ships Lost to Enemy Action, Years 1914, 1915, 1916 in date order, Naval History, 2011David Brown, The Grand Fleet: Warship Design and Development 1906–1922, U. S. Naval Institute, 1999Malcolm Brown, The Imperial War Museum Book of the First World War: A Great Conflict Recalled in Previously Unpublished Letters, Diaries, Documents and Memoirs, University of Oklahoma Press, 1993Marc Castel, Fresnel, Sous marins francais Richard Compton-Hall, Submarines at war, 1914–18, Periscope Publishing, 2004J. S. Corbett, Naval Operations. History of the Great War based on Official Documents, Imperial War Museum and Naval & Military Press, 1938Károly Csonkaréti, Marynarka Wojenna Austro-Węgier w I wojnie światowej 1914-1918, Arkadiusz Wingert, 2004Mike Farquharson-Roberts, A History of the Royal Navy: World War I, I.B.Tauris, 2014Robert Gardiner, Randal Gray, Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921, Conway Maritime Press, 1985R. Gibson, M. Prendergast, The German Submarine War, 1914–1918, Naval Institute Press, 2003James Goldrick, Before Jutland: The Naval War in Northern European Waters, August 1914 – February 1915, U. S. Naval Institute, 2015Paul G. Halpern, La grande guerra nel Mediterraneo, LEG, 2008Paul G. Halpern, Mediterranean Theater, Naval Operations, 1914-1918 Online, 2016Peter Hart, La grande storia della Prima Guerra Mondiale, Newton & Compton, 2013Guðmundur Helgason, WWI U-boats: KUK U12, German and Austrian U-boats of World War I - Kaiserliche Marine - Uboat.net, 2008David Howarth, Le corazzate, Mondadori, 1988John Jordan, Philippe Caresse, French Battleships of World War One, Seaforth Publishing, 2017Charles Koburger, The Central Powers in the Adriatic, 1914–1918: War in a Narrow Sea, Praeger, 2001Laibacher Zeitung n. 73, 1915Robert Massie, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea, Jonathan Cape, 2004Erwin Sieche, French Naval Operations, Engagements and Ship Losses in the Adriatic in World War One, 2000Erwin Sieche, The Austro-Hungarian Submarine Force, 2000Anthony Sokol, Naval Strategy in the Adriatic Sea During the World War, U. S. Naval Institute, 1937Anthony Sokol, The Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Navy, U. S. Naval Institute, 1968Spencer Tucker, World War I: The Definitive Encyclopedia and Document Collection, 2014Pierpaolo Zagnoni, Il ritrovamento della torpediniera 88S, Sub 290, Adventures, 2009In copertina: Logan Marshall, Gilbert Parker, Vance Thompson, Philip Gibbs, Illustrazione dell'azione del 22 settembre, in Thrilling stories of the Great War on land and sea, in the air, under the water, 1915

La guerra mondiale si combatte anche nei cieli. In Galizia e in Francia i primi aviatori perdono la vita, mentre Churchill, in Inghilterra, è veloce a intuire che la guerra del futuro si farà bombardando gli obiettivi nemici.Seguimi su Instagram: @laguerragrande_podcastSe vuoi contribuire con una donazione sul conto PayPal: podcastlaguerragrande@gmail.comScritto e condotto da Andrea BassoMontaggio e audio: Andrea BassoFonti dell'episodio:Avro 504J & Avro 504K, BAE Systems  S. Biggs, First British Air-raid of WW1, Royal Marines History, 2021  Mikhail Bonch-Bruyevich, From Tsarist General to Red Army Commander, Progress Publishers, 1966  Alan Durkota, Thomas Darcey, Victor Kulikov, The Imperial Russian Air Service — Famous Pilots and Aircraft of World War I, Flying Machines Press, 1995  Peter Grey, Owen Thetford, German Aircraft of the First World War, Putnam, 1970  Mathieu Guillerot, Histoires 14-18 : le premier combat aérien, franceinfo, 2020  Jon Guttman, Pusher Aces of World War 1, Osprey, 2009  Gérard Hartmann, L'incroyable Morane-Saulnier hydro, La Coupe Schneider et hydravions anciens/Dossiers historiques hydravions et moteurs, 2001  Ross Mahoney, James Pugh, Air warfare, 1914-1918 Online, 2018  Jacques Nœtinger, Témoin privilégié de l'histoire de l'aviation du XXe siècle : mes rencontres avec des constructeurs, des techniciens, des pilotes, des aventuriers et bien d'autres, Nouvelles Éditions latines, 2010  Bruce Robertson, Sopwith-The Man and his Aircraft, Air Review, 1970  The Friedrichshafen Raid - 21 November 1914, World Naval Ships  Ari Unikoski, The War in the Air - Bombers: Britain, Firstworldwar.com, 2009  Marie-Catherine Villatoux, Premier combat aérien de l'histoire, French Archives, 2024  L. P. Yates Smith, British Destruction of Zeppelins, U. S. Naval Institute, 1936In copertina: l'attacco degli Avro 504 alla fabbrica Zeppelin di Friedrichshafen, dalla copertina di "The Zeppelin Base Raids" di Ian Castle

This week we're going back to postwar Tokyo with Godzilla Minus One! Join us as we learn about the rebuilding of Ginza, war orphans, sea mine removal, how Godzilla stands upright in the water, and more! Sources: "Ginza," Tokyo Official Website: https://www.ginza.jp/en/history/2#:~:text=As%20early%20as%20April%2C%201946,Ginza%20%2Ddori%20during%20this%20festival.&text=In%20addition%20to%20the%20regular,goods%20to%20the%20US%20troops. "Post-war Ginza," Old Tokyo, available at https://www.oldtokyo.com/post-war-ginza-1945/ "The Lost Metropolis: 1930s Tokyo Street Life in Pictures," The Guardian available at https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2019/may/17/the-lost-metropolis-1930s-tokyo-street-life-kineo-kuwabara-in-pictures US Naval Institute, "Success Meant Death: An Interview with Kaoru Hasegawa," available at https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/1995/october/success-meant-death-interview-kaoru-hasegawa Richard Lloyd-Parry, "Survivor Shame," The Independent, available at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/survivor-shame-1592965.html Roger B. Jeans, "Victims or Victimizers? Museums, Textbooks, and the War Debate in Contemporary Japan," Journal of Military History 69, 1 (2005) Lili van der Does-Ishikawa, "Contested Memories of the Kamikaze and the Self-Representations of Tokko-Tai Youth in Their Missives Home," Japan Forum 27, 3 (2015) John W. Dower, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II. WW Norton, 2000. Mariko Asano Tamanoi, "The Origins and Plight of Sensō Koji (War Orphans) In Postwar Japan," APJIF, 18, iss. 13, no.1 (2020). https://apjjf.org/2020/13/tamanoi  Robert Efirt, "Japan's "War Orphans": Identification and State Responsibility," The Journal of Japanese Studies 34, no.2 (2008): 363-88. http://www.jstor.com/stable/27756572  Mariko Asano Tamanoi, "Memory Map 3: Orphans' Memories," Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan (University of Hawai'i Press, 2009), 84-114. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wqrg5.7  Sheldon Garon, "Operation STARVATION, 1945: A Transnational History of Blockades and the Defeat of Japan," The International History Review 46, no.4 (2024): 535-50.  Michael Sturma, "Mopping Up," in Surface and Destroy: The Submarine Gun War in the Pacific (University Press of Kentucky, 2011). https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt2jcr03.13  John S. Chilstrom, Mines Away! The Significance of U.S. Army Air Forces Minelaying in World War II (Air University Press, 1992).  John S. Chilsstrom, "A Test for Joint Ops: USAAF Bombing Doctrine and the Aerial Minelaying Mission," Air Power History 40, no.1 (1993): 35-43. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26279445  Lieut. Commander Arnold S. Lott, USN, "Japan's Nightmare--Mine Blockade," U.S. Naval Institute, Vol. 85/11/681 (November 1959). https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/1959/november/japans-nightmare-mine-blockade https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20231003-140471/  https://www.state.gov/dipnote-u-s-department-of-state-official-blog/investing-in-the-future-of-the-pacific-u-s-assistance-continues-to-address-wwii-era-explosive-hazards/  https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15088407  RT: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/godzilla_minus_one  Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_Minus_One  https://variety.com/2024/artisans/news/godzilla-minus-one-visual-effects-water-scene-610-shots-1235891768/  Oscar win: https://youtu.be/h3q7SaXhCPE?si=dSEUEIhlPD9g2xEU 

The U.S. military is responding after Russia and China increased their military activity near Alaska.  The U.S. military deployed 130 Army airborne soldiers with mobile rocket launchers earlier this month to the Aleutian Islands of western Alaska. The action comes after Russia and China conducted joint military exercises close to Alaska. “There's been naval exercises, there has been joint flyovers … not necessarily our airspace, but identification airspace, which is between the Russian airspace and our airspace,” Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy said, adding that the military activity near Alaska is “becoming more frequent.”   Earlier this month, Russia and China carried out a week of joint naval exercises in the Sea of Japan. On Monday, the U.S. Naval Institute reported that the U.S. "detected Russian aircraft operating in the Alaska air-defense identification zone.” “I think these are, you know, chess cases and probes,” Dunleavy said of Russia and China's actions. “But because of the instability in the world, and to some degree, I think some of these countries are questioning America's resolve, [so] you may be seeing more of these activities in the future.” Mainland Russia is only 55 miles from Alaska, making America's northernmost state key to national security, especially as Russia is actively building its Arctic military capabilities. The Daily Signal had the opportunity to visit Dunleavy at his Anchorage office and discuss the national security threat Russia and China pose to the U.S., and why Russia has its eye on the Arctic. Enjoy the show!

So I wonder – who's the most difficult person in your life right now? Chances are you can picture their face. Well I'd like to spend some time with you chatting about the number one most difficult person in your life.   When People Look at Us Let me ask you a question: when the world looks at the church, what does it see? When people look at the church of Jesus Christ, what is it they see in the media image? Sexual abuse on the news, division amongst denominations, people who mean well demonstrating against this, that and the other! It sees a bunch of people who say one thing and do another. On the one thing we profess God‘s love, on the other, well, the church seems to be saying, in it's media image, “do this, don't do that, but by the way, don't mind the fact that we have systematically covered up sexual abuse of children for decades." There's a name for that and it's called ‘hypocrisy' and the world hates hypocrisy. You and I hate hypocrisy. What do people expect to see when they look at God's people? What do people expect to see? Tony Campolo is a wonderful man out of the U.S., you may have heard of him. He just a wonderful minister of God's Word and he often asks young people, when he meets them in universities: “What's the one thing that you know that Jesus said?” and mostly people say this - mostly people remember that Jesus said: “Love your enemy!” And too often it seems that we as God's people; as Christians, are kind of telling people how far they have strayed from God. You know, we talk about this social issue, or that social issue, instead of reaching out to people and telling them how close God really is in Jesus Christ. Well that's the big picture; that's the macro. What about the micro? What about you and me? When they look at us, what do they see? Do they see, ‘love your enemy'? First John chapter 4 verse 7 says this: Let us love one another for love comes from God ... And when you look at Jesus, when you look at how He dealt with people and what He taught and what He spoke about, the biggest thing for Him was that love-walk; the biggest thing for Him was valuing people and loving them into the Kingdom of God. We got a new revelation of who God is when Jesus arrived and then when you look at the rest of the New Testament, the Epistles that come after the Gospels, the letters that were written amongst the New Testament church when Jesus had risen again, more and more you see that revelation expounded as ‘walk in love'. Love God and love other people. John Grey, the author of that famous book, 'Men Are From Mars and Women are From Venus', makes a very interesting point in that book. He says that very few people ever grow in love. Why is that? Because loving is difficult. The people we love can be difficult sometimes. Forty five percent of marriages - almost half - fail. I wonder of those that are left, how many of them are lousy marriages? We want to love; it's not enough to want to love, we actually need to know how to love, I really believe that. Let me just say that again. It's not enough for us to know that we ought to walk in love; we actually need to know how to do that. And so on Christianityworks this week we are starting a series of four messages called Dealing With Difficult People. Because difficult people are all around us, difficult relationships are all around us and our ability to look like Jesus and be like Jesus and love like Jesus, depends on our ability to deal with the difficult people in our lives - those that Jesus referred to as our enemies. Let me ask you, who's the most difficult person you'll ever meet? Just close your eyes for a minute and visualise the most difficult person you ever met. I'm sure you can see their face and it stirs up emotions in you. Now open your eyes. If I had a mirror I'd be standing in front of you holding up the mirror and saying, “Here, look at the most difficult person that you will ever meet.” Take a good look, because we look at ourselves for five, maybe ten minutes in the mirror in the morning and then we spend the rest of the day looking at other people. Day after day after day, we look at other people and sometimes the better we know them, the better we know their faults and weaknesses and their blind spots and we experience the things that they do to hurt us, or the things that they don't do to hurt us and we go from recognising their strengths and weaknesses to judging those. Now, it's right to look at someone and say, "this person is good at this and not good at that" and to assess them. But we can step over a line, where that good assessment of someone turns into judgement and that line is called, ‘anger and resentment'. When all of a sudden, what other people do to us or say to us or omit to do to us - when those things get us angry and resentful and vengeful - we have stepped over a very important line and all the time we forget that in order for us to have a difficult person in our lives we have to have a relationship with them. It's not so much that they are difficult people; it's that we are having a difficult relationship. It takes two to tango, as the saying goes. And sometime as we get to know these people better and their weaknesses hurt us and their failures grate up against our personalities, we can start to judge them. Instead of looking at them through God's eyes, we end up looking at them through the devil's eyes. Jesus said: “You've heard it said, 'Don't murder' and anyone who murders will be subject to judgement, but I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother, is subject to judgement.” Well, what is that judgement? What does that look like? Why do we go there?   The Anatomy of Judgement So what is it, what happens when we run into a difficult person and we step over that line, we step over the line from a sober assessment of who they are into that realm of judgement and resentment? Well, Jesus talked about that because it was an important issue - was two thousand years ago, it still is today. This is what He said, if you have a Bible, grab it, you can open it at Matthew's Gospel; first Book in the New Testament, chapter 6 verse 22, Matthew 6:22, this is what he said. He said: The eye is the lamp of the body so if your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. And when the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness? The eye, when you think about it, is our major organ of perception. We see the world through our eyes and Jesus was using it here as a metaphor. It's true in the physical sense but it's also true in an emotional and spiritual sense. How we see things, often becomes the problem when we are having a relationship that is difficult. Now if the eye is healthy then we'll see light; we'll see things the way that they are but Jesus says: If the eye is unhealthy then you will be full of darkness and how dark is that darkness? When we get a wrong perspective, it kind of creeps up on you. I suffer from Glaucoma which is a disease of the eye where the pressure in your eye ultimately damages the optic nerve that carries the images back to your brain, and it happens very gradually. You lose your peripheral vision and all of a sudden you can barely see and by then it's too late. Now fortunately, for me, they caught it early and I've got treatment and I can see just fine. But when our eye is diseased; when our perception is diseased, we often don't notice that it's going on. Have a listen to this wonderful story, it was written by Frank Koche, in the magazine 'Proceedings' which is the magazine of the U.S. Naval Institute. This is what he writes. He says: Two battleships assigned to the training squadron had been sent on manoeuvres in heavy weather for several days. I was serving on the lead battleship and I was on watch on the bridge when night fell. The visibility was poor, with patchy fog so the Captain remained on the bridge to keep an eye on all activities. Shortly after dark, the look-out on the wing of the bridge reported: “Light bearing on the starboard bow.” “Is it steady or moving astern?” the Captain called out. The look-out replied: “Steady, Captain,” which meant that we were on a dangerous collision course with that ship. The Captain then called to the signalman. He said: “Signal that ship. We are on a collision course, advise that you change course twenty degrees.” Back came a signal: “Advise for you to change course twenty degrees.” And the Captain said: “Send - “I am a Captain, change course twenty degrees.” “I'm a seaman second class” came back the reply, “You'd better change course twenty degrees.” By that time the Captain was furious and he spat out: “Send - I'm a battleship, change course twenty degrees.” Back came the flashing light: “I'm a lighthouse.” We changed course twenty degrees.” The Captain was caught in a fog. Now there were two battleships out there on exercise and he thought that that other light was a battleship but he had fog; he couldn't see properly. He was trying to keep an eye on things but he's vision was clouded. The picture in his head was of two ships and he relied on the picture in his head and the picture was wrong, yet he got angry even though it was because he had the wrong picture in his head and that is exactly what we do. We have a map in our head of other people and why they do what they do and how they do it and what they're doing to us. We have this map in our head of other people and sometimes it gets distorted. Sometimes we don't have the right end of the stick. Sometimes our vision is clouded and we just get it plain wrong. Maybe if we're insecure, we want other people to walk on egg-shells because of our insecurity. Maybe if we are arrogant we want other people to be perfect, made in our image. You know, perfection is always: they're exactly like me. Maybe if we've got selfish ambition we want people to get out of our road so that we can go and do what we want to do. The list goes on. Not so long ago, I visited a city; a large city that I used to live in, and I had an old street directory and I was trying to travel from point A to point B in the centre of the city in my car. And I got to a point and I discovered all of a sudden, they had put a pedestrian mall in the middle of one of the main streets, I had the wrong map. And when we do that in our relationships with other people, it can be a painful thing. Our past hurts or our own weaknesses or our own sin, all of those things - the devil uses those to destroy our relationships. We see things through the lens of our experiences. I wear glasses, maybe you wear glasses, maybe you don't, but we see things through the lens of who we are, our strengths and weaknesses, of our experiences, of our past, of our insecurities. If we looked at some of the people in our lives who are so difficult, the ones who hurt us and disappoints us, the ones who we've made our enemies - if we knew the hurts and disappointments in their lives, that make them do what they do, it would be enough to stop us from any feelings of hostility or anger or anything like that. ‘The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body is full of light, but if your eye is unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness and if the light in you is darkness, how great is that darkness.' In other words if you think you are seeing light and clearly, but actually it is distorted, boy, that is a really, really bad place to be. Come on, isn't it sometimes the problems in our relationships are not so much what other people are doing but how we see the world? What are the things in my life; what are the things in your life that distort our view of exactly what's going on? How is it that we can see clearly?   Don't Judge We are talking about judgement. We are talking about dealing with difficult people and how it is sometimes that we get all hurt by what other people do. When so often it's got to do with our own failures and our own weaknesses and the way we see the world based on who we are. Again Jesus talked about this, open a Bible, if you've got one, at Matthew chapter 7 verse 1, this is what He said. He said: Do not judge so that you may not be judged. For with the judgement that you make, you will be judged and the measure you give will be the measure that you get.” Now under what circumstances, according to Jesus, is it ok to judge other people? Never! “Do not judge, so that you may not be judged. Wow! Because judgement is about anger and retribution, when I judge you, I want my pound of flesh; I want to tear you apart. Yea, that's what we are like as people and Jesus is saying: “It's not your job. Don't judge other people.” Boy that's hard! Have a look at Romans chapter 12 verse 19, just flick there for a moment. This is what the Apostle Paul writes: Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God because it's written: “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. Now if your enemies are hungry, feed them, if they're thirsty, give them something to drink, for by doing this you will heap burning coals on their heads. Do not overcome by evil but overcome evil with good. If I judge what, God is going to judge me? God will judge me by the same rules that I apply to judging other people. Look at it - back to Matthew chapter 7, where Jesus was talking. He said: Why is it that you see the speck in your neighbour's eye but you don't notice the log in your own eye. Or how can you say to your neighbour; “Let me take the speck out of your eye,” while there's a log in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the log out of your own eye and then you'll see clearly enough to take the speck out of your neighbour's eye. The log in my eye, the log in your eye, that's our failures and our weaknesses and our downsides and our sin - that's what causes our perception to be distorted. Come on, if I'm an insecure person, am I going to expect everybody to walk on egg-shells for me? If I'm an arrogant person, am I going to expect them all to kow-tow to me? Or am I going to humble myself and take the log out of my eye. If I'm on a mission; I've got a goal in life that's not from God and I want to roll over the top of people, will I lay it down? This stuff's not easy because, the log in our own eye, we don't want to know it's there. We don't want to admit that we have a log in our own eye, but we sometimes do. It's not easy to get rid of - that's why we need the Holy Spirit; that's why we need the Word of God. That's why you and I are together right now. We can be such slackos but what if - what if we put determination and humility in our hearts? What if we came to Jesus and said: “Lord, I've heard your Word and I confess this log. I confess my own poverty, I confess my complete inability to do anything about it, except to lay it at your feet - to lay it at the foot of the cross - and say: “Lord I need your help.” Because you know something - anything less is hypocrisy. The word ‘hypocrisy' that Jesus uses there, means an actor who is two faced. The world hates hypocrites - you and I hate hypocrites. How can we be hypocrites? How can we walk around with a log in our eye and say to a neighbour: “You've got a speck in yours.” Come on! Now does that mean that we can never deal with someone else's problem? No! That's not what Jesus said. Have a look at chapter 7 verse 5 of Matthew again. He said: You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your neighbour's eye. Because when we take out the log; when we take out our failures out of the equation, when we take off the devil's glasses and put on God's glasses and we see the world clearly through His eyes, through God's Word, through who He is, all of a sudden the judgement goes away, a desire for anger and revenge goes away. You and I, we can't genuinely help anybody when we are angry with them. Can I say that again? We can't genuinely help anybody to take the speck out of their eye when we are angry with them. All we can give them is cynical, self-serving and self-seeking hypocrisy and judgement. First we need take the log out of our own eyes, first we need to admit that maybe our own insecurities are ruining this relationship. Maybe our own selfishness is ruining this relationship. Maybe some unrealistic expectations are ruining this relationship. Jesus said: “Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees. You hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and plate but inside they're full of greed and self-indulgence. You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup so that the outside may also become clean.” How do I deal with difficult people? For me, the first step is saying, ‘I'm the most difficult person I will ever meet. I am with me 24/7, I am with me every minute of every day of every week of every month of every year for the rest of my life on this earth and Jesus is saying to me, Jesus is saying to you: Examine your own motives in the light of God's Word and in the power of the Holy Spirit. Have a look again at the Book of Romans, if you will, with me - chapter 5 verses 6 to 8. Paul writes this. He says: For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. Indeed, rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though perhaps, for a good person, someone might actually dare to die, but God proves His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. When you and I were still sinners; when we were in enmity to God, God proved His love for us, by looking beyond our sin. He didn't let the hurt that He felt at our sin, immobilise Him or deter Him from the cross. We all know John 3:16 - that's the good news, because: God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son so that whoever believes in Him won't perish but have eternal life. But what about First John 3:16 - that letter toward the end of the New Testament - what does that say? Gotta remember this one too, it says this: “We know love by this - that He laid down His life for us and we ought to lay down our lives for each other. In other words be imitators of God.” We are made to be like God - not to be God - but to be like God. We're made in His image and the one thing that stops us from that is our sin, our weaknesses and our failures and Jesus is saying: Take the log out of your eye. Because as long as you carry it round, you are the most difficult person you will ever meet and when you can see clearly - when you can see through my eyes - when you can see your enemies as the people who God created and God loves, as people made in His image, all of a sudden life becomes a lot better. All of a sudden it becomes so much easier to deal with those difficult people, when we acknowledge that we are part of the difficulty in that relationship. It takes courage to identify the log in your eye. You know, it takes determination to cast it out. It takes humility to love your enemy. So how about it? Don't underestimate it - this is a huge thing. It's being prepared to change our perspective; to lay our pride down, to struggle through this over and over again, to die to ourselves for the glory of Jesus Christ. When they look at you, when they look at me, will they see someone and say: “Now there's someone that's like Jesus, there is someone who heard Jesus say: 'Love your enemy.'” Come on, will they?  

In this episode, I host Duane Bushey, the seventh Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy. We discuss various topics related to leadership and Duane's experiences in the Navy. Duane shares stories from his early days in the Navy, including humorous anecdotes and encounters with different leadership styles, his post-retirement career and his commitment to mentorship and leadership, defense of the initiation process, the selection process for MCPON, and changes the Navy has made that he likes and dislikes. Subscribe and keep up with the Cutlass Podcast Follow me on my digital platforms: Cutlass Leadership (Website): https://www.cutlassleadership.com/paul Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KingsburyPaul Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-kingsbury-3bb8a8b3/ U.S. Naval Institute: https://www.usni.org/people/paul-kingsbury Books reference in the episodes can be ordered here: The Chief Petty Officer's Guide: https://www.usni.org/press/books/chief-petty-officers-guide-2nd-edition Petty Officer's Guide: https://www.usni.org/press/books/petty-officers-guide The Bluejacket's Manual, 26th Edition: https://www.usni.org/press/books/bluejackets-manual-26th-edition-0 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paul-kingsbury03/support

About our guest: Paul Kingsbury is a retired Fleet Master Chief (U.S. Fleet Forces Command) with 31 years of service. He currently serves as the Director of Uniformed Service Relations at the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. He's the host of the ‘Cutlass Podcast,' a podcast specializing in leadership lessons and guidance. He's authored or co-authored the 2nd Edition of the Chief Petty Officer's Guide, the Petty Officer's Guide, and the latest edition of the Bluejacket's Manual. He's served as the President of the Non-Commissioned Officers Association (NCOA) and the co-director of Outreach and Brand Ambassador for the U.S. Naval Institute. He's published several articles on Navy policy and issues in Proceedings, the USNI Blog, and Joint Forces Quarterly, receiving awards in both the U.S. Naval Institute General Essay and Enlisted Essay Contests.   About the Episode: Congrats are in order for the newly selected Command Master Chiefs and Command Senior Chiefs. Damo made it y'all. Damon and Tish poke a little fun and congratulate Damo on his selection as a Senior Enlisted Leader. He discusses his thoughts and anticipation about going into a new role. They briefly discuss the story about the Chief who's recently been accused of espionage.   Retired Fleet Master Chief, Paul Kingsbury joins the show to just chat it up with the gang. He talks about his upbringing as a catholic altar boy in a blue-collar family in South Florida in the 1980s. He discusses his early days as an Electrician's Mate (EMN) in the Nuclear Power Plant. How do you even become a Fleet Master Chief? What's the difference between a Force and a Fleet Master Chief? How easy is it for a Fleet Master Chief to make changes? This leads us down a dark rabbit hole about who really runs the military. How's the work/life balance of a CMC moving up to FLTCM? How did Paul get the opportunities to write (and co-author) the CPO Guide, Petty Officer Guide and Bluejacket's Manual? How is the transition to a civilian after 31 years of Military Service?  Paul details the craziest thing that he's seen on a ship while underway. How difficult is it to sustain relationships the higher you climb up the leadership level? Paul explains why he thinks the CPO Selection board has an impact on CPO behavior. Paul's #Dobetter - “What got you here, won't get you there.” These and more topics are covered in this episode of the ‘Permission to Speak Freely' podcast. Remember to follow the ‘Permission to Speak Freely' podcast on TikTok, Facebook, Discord, Instagram, and Twitter, and subscribe on YouTube.       Keep up with the ‘Permission to Speak Freely' podcast on our social media and YouTube - https://linktr.ee/Ptsfpodcast     Listen to The Cutlass Podcasty (by Paul Kingsbury) - https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/paul-kingsbury03     Keep up with Paul Kingsbury on his social media platforms: U.S. Naval Institute - https://www.usni.org/people/paul-kingsbury Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-kingsbury-3bb8a8b3/ Cutllass Leadership (Website) - https://www.cutlassleadership.com/paul X - https://twitter.com/kingsburypaul1?lang=en     For the Books:   The Chief Petty Officer's Guide (Paul Kingsbury) - https://www.usni.org/press/books/chief-petty-officers-guide-2nd-edition   Petty Officer's Guide (Paul Kingsbury & Daniel Richard) - https://www.usni.org/press/books/petty-officers-guide   The Bluejacket's Manual, 26th Edition (Thomas J. Cutler, Mark T. Hacala, and Paul Kingsbury) - https://www.usni.org/press/books/bluejackets-manual-26th-edition-0       Links and more from this Episode:   Navy Chief Charged with Espionage - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13110621/amp/us-navy-chief-japan-charged-espionage.html   Air Force Member Set Himself on Fire Outside Israeli Embassy - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-air-force-member-set-fire-israeli-embassy-dc-died-rcna140455       Additional Credits: PTSF “Theme Music” - Produced by Lim0

The Naval Institute's magazine carried the story of a battleship captain who was concerned about rough seas and fog when, quite suddenly, a bright light appeared on the horizon. 

Host Bill Hamblet interviews author David Poyer about his latest book "The Academy" from the Dan Lenson series. This content is made possible by the members of the U.S. Naval Institute. For more information, visit: https://www.usni.org/join/

The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys (US Naval Institute Press, 2023) by Dr. G. H. Bennett examines the Kriegsmarine's S-Boat offensive along the English Channel and the North Sea from 1940 to 1945, together with British and, later, Allied responses to nullify that threat. Very fast, and armed with torpedoes and mines, S-Boats posed a serious threat to the convoys that were forced to run close along the British coast on a daily basis. Despite the significance of this campaign and the real threat to the whole British war economy, it has been, until now, strangely overlooked by historians. Indeed, the book highlights issues around the maritime identity of those states and navies that see themselves in oceanic terms, at the expense of engagement with, and operations in, coastal waters. Using an array of archival materials from Britain, Germany and the USA, The War for England's Shores examines why the Germans failed to make the most of this opportunity to disrupt British trade. G. H. Bennett analyses how the British slowly countered the threat by embracing new technologies and developing a system of sea control that gradually forced the German S-Boat arm from the offensive against Britain's coastal convoys, and on to the defensive in the months leading up to the invasion of France. The author also looks at the S-Boat campaign along these convoy routes in the context of present-day interest in littoral warfare, so that the work has a vital and current appeal and offers significant and surprising insights. The book offers an unparalleled exploration of a key moment in the development of coastal warfare, and will appeal to historians and enthusiasts as well as defence analysts and naval personnel. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys (US Naval Institute Press, 2023) by Dr. G. H. Bennett examines the Kriegsmarine's S-Boat offensive along the English Channel and the North Sea from 1940 to 1945, together with British and, later, Allied responses to nullify that threat. Very fast, and armed with torpedoes and mines, S-Boats posed a serious threat to the convoys that were forced to run close along the British coast on a daily basis. Despite the significance of this campaign and the real threat to the whole British war economy, it has been, until now, strangely overlooked by historians. Indeed, the book highlights issues around the maritime identity of those states and navies that see themselves in oceanic terms, at the expense of engagement with, and operations in, coastal waters. Using an array of archival materials from Britain, Germany and the USA, The War for England's Shores examines why the Germans failed to make the most of this opportunity to disrupt British trade. G. H. Bennett analyses how the British slowly countered the threat by embracing new technologies and developing a system of sea control that gradually forced the German S-Boat arm from the offensive against Britain's coastal convoys, and on to the defensive in the months leading up to the invasion of France. The author also looks at the S-Boat campaign along these convoy routes in the context of present-day interest in littoral warfare, so that the work has a vital and current appeal and offers significant and surprising insights. The book offers an unparalleled exploration of a key moment in the development of coastal warfare, and will appeal to historians and enthusiasts as well as defence analysts and naval personnel. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys (US Naval Institute Press, 2023) by Dr. G. H. Bennett examines the Kriegsmarine's S-Boat offensive along the English Channel and the North Sea from 1940 to 1945, together with British and, later, Allied responses to nullify that threat. Very fast, and armed with torpedoes and mines, S-Boats posed a serious threat to the convoys that were forced to run close along the British coast on a daily basis. Despite the significance of this campaign and the real threat to the whole British war economy, it has been, until now, strangely overlooked by historians. Indeed, the book highlights issues around the maritime identity of those states and navies that see themselves in oceanic terms, at the expense of engagement with, and operations in, coastal waters. Using an array of archival materials from Britain, Germany and the USA, The War for England's Shores examines why the Germans failed to make the most of this opportunity to disrupt British trade. G. H. Bennett analyses how the British slowly countered the threat by embracing new technologies and developing a system of sea control that gradually forced the German S-Boat arm from the offensive against Britain's coastal convoys, and on to the defensive in the months leading up to the invasion of France. The author also looks at the S-Boat campaign along these convoy routes in the context of present-day interest in littoral warfare, so that the work has a vital and current appeal and offers significant and surprising insights. The book offers an unparalleled exploration of a key moment in the development of coastal warfare, and will appeal to historians and enthusiasts as well as defence analysts and naval personnel. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys (US Naval Institute Press, 2023) by Dr. G. H. Bennett examines the Kriegsmarine's S-Boat offensive along the English Channel and the North Sea from 1940 to 1945, together with British and, later, Allied responses to nullify that threat. Very fast, and armed with torpedoes and mines, S-Boats posed a serious threat to the convoys that were forced to run close along the British coast on a daily basis. Despite the significance of this campaign and the real threat to the whole British war economy, it has been, until now, strangely overlooked by historians. Indeed, the book highlights issues around the maritime identity of those states and navies that see themselves in oceanic terms, at the expense of engagement with, and operations in, coastal waters. Using an array of archival materials from Britain, Germany and the USA, The War for England's Shores examines why the Germans failed to make the most of this opportunity to disrupt British trade. G. H. Bennett analyses how the British slowly countered the threat by embracing new technologies and developing a system of sea control that gradually forced the German S-Boat arm from the offensive against Britain's coastal convoys, and on to the defensive in the months leading up to the invasion of France. The author also looks at the S-Boat campaign along these convoy routes in the context of present-day interest in littoral warfare, so that the work has a vital and current appeal and offers significant and surprising insights. The book offers an unparalleled exploration of a key moment in the development of coastal warfare, and will appeal to historians and enthusiasts as well as defence analysts and naval personnel. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/german-studies

The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys (US Naval Institute Press, 2023) by Dr. G. H. Bennett examines the Kriegsmarine's S-Boat offensive along the English Channel and the North Sea from 1940 to 1945, together with British and, later, Allied responses to nullify that threat. Very fast, and armed with torpedoes and mines, S-Boats posed a serious threat to the convoys that were forced to run close along the British coast on a daily basis. Despite the significance of this campaign and the real threat to the whole British war economy, it has been, until now, strangely overlooked by historians. Indeed, the book highlights issues around the maritime identity of those states and navies that see themselves in oceanic terms, at the expense of engagement with, and operations in, coastal waters. Using an array of archival materials from Britain, Germany and the USA, The War for England's Shores examines why the Germans failed to make the most of this opportunity to disrupt British trade. G. H. Bennett analyses how the British slowly countered the threat by embracing new technologies and developing a system of sea control that gradually forced the German S-Boat arm from the offensive against Britain's coastal convoys, and on to the defensive in the months leading up to the invasion of France. The author also looks at the S-Boat campaign along these convoy routes in the context of present-day interest in littoral warfare, so that the work has a vital and current appeal and offers significant and surprising insights. The book offers an unparalleled exploration of a key moment in the development of coastal warfare, and will appeal to historians and enthusiasts as well as defence analysts and naval personnel. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys (US Naval Institute Press, 2023) by Dr. G. H. Bennett examines the Kriegsmarine's S-Boat offensive along the English Channel and the North Sea from 1940 to 1945, together with British and, later, Allied responses to nullify that threat. Very fast, and armed with torpedoes and mines, S-Boats posed a serious threat to the convoys that were forced to run close along the British coast on a daily basis. Despite the significance of this campaign and the real threat to the whole British war economy, it has been, until now, strangely overlooked by historians. Indeed, the book highlights issues around the maritime identity of those states and navies that see themselves in oceanic terms, at the expense of engagement with, and operations in, coastal waters. Using an array of archival materials from Britain, Germany and the USA, The War for England's Shores examines why the Germans failed to make the most of this opportunity to disrupt British trade. G. H. Bennett analyses how the British slowly countered the threat by embracing new technologies and developing a system of sea control that gradually forced the German S-Boat arm from the offensive against Britain's coastal convoys, and on to the defensive in the months leading up to the invasion of France. The author also looks at the S-Boat campaign along these convoy routes in the context of present-day interest in littoral warfare, so that the work has a vital and current appeal and offers significant and surprising insights. The book offers an unparalleled exploration of a key moment in the development of coastal warfare, and will appeal to historians and enthusiasts as well as defence analysts and naval personnel. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

The War for England's Shores: S-Boats and the Fight Against British Coastal Convoys (US Naval Institute Press, 2023) by Dr. G. H. Bennett examines the Kriegsmarine's S-Boat offensive along the English Channel and the North Sea from 1940 to 1945, together with British and, later, Allied responses to nullify that threat. Very fast, and armed with torpedoes and mines, S-Boats posed a serious threat to the convoys that were forced to run close along the British coast on a daily basis. Despite the significance of this campaign and the real threat to the whole British war economy, it has been, until now, strangely overlooked by historians. Indeed, the book highlights issues around the maritime identity of those states and navies that see themselves in oceanic terms, at the expense of engagement with, and operations in, coastal waters. Using an array of archival materials from Britain, Germany and the USA, The War for England's Shores examines why the Germans failed to make the most of this opportunity to disrupt British trade. G. H. Bennett analyses how the British slowly countered the threat by embracing new technologies and developing a system of sea control that gradually forced the German S-Boat arm from the offensive against Britain's coastal convoys, and on to the defensive in the months leading up to the invasion of France. The author also looks at the S-Boat campaign along these convoy routes in the context of present-day interest in littoral warfare, so that the work has a vital and current appeal and offers significant and surprising insights. The book offers an unparalleled exploration of a key moment in the development of coastal warfare, and will appeal to historians and enthusiasts as well as defence analysts and naval personnel. This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/british-studies

Naval History Editor-in-Chief Eric Mills talks with Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired) about the 150th Anniversary of the Naval Institute, and the influential founding members who started the organization.

Episode 2618 of the Vietnam Veteran News Podcast features a story about the spark that ignited the Vietnam War. The featured story comes from the U.S. Naval Institute and is titled Face Tonkin Ghosts Before Cyber Phantoms Strike. It was … Continue reading →

Bill Hamblet and Bill Bray discuss highlights from the July issue of Proceedings. This episode of the Proceedings Podcast is made possible by the members of the U.S. Naval Institute. For more information visit: www.usni.org/join

Lieutenant General Chris Mahoney, USMC, Deputy Commandant for Programs and Resources, talks to Bill Hamblet about Force Design 2030 and the Marine Corps' modernization priorities. The Proceedings Podcast is made possible by the members of the U.S. Naval Institute. For more information, go to usni.org/join.

Captain Jim Fanell, U.S. Navy (Ret.)—noted expert on the Chinese Navy, former Director of Intelligence for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and frequent Proceedings contributor—provides an update on the Chinese Navy, its operations, and shipbuilding programs. More here: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2023/may/china-growing-and-going-sea Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest content from the Proceedings Podcast, and more from the U.S. Naval Institute! For audio recordings of the Proceedings Podcast, including past episodes, go to: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/the-proceedings-podcast This content is made possible by the members of the U.S. Naval Institute. For additional details about the Naval Institute, visit: https://www.usni.org/join

The U.S. Air Force had to struggle to establish itself as an independent branch of the American military, and originally was an extension of the Army. The experiences during World War II (1939-1945) and the beginning of the Cold War afterwards helped propel the process towards becoming a separate branch in 1948. An important but less studied aspect of this process was the necessity for the Air Force to have its own special intelligence branch, which would later become the Security Service. Undertaking painstaking operations to decipher enemy communications and intentions, the Security Service thought of itself as the first line of defense for the United States and its NATO allies. The hard-won struggle for the Air Force to be an independent branch of the military marked the Security Service as having a certain maverick status within the larger American military intelligence community. The story of this lesser-known branch of U.S. military intelligence is the subject of Philip C. Shackelford's Rise of the Mavericks: The U.S. Air Force Security Service and the Cold War, 1948-1979 (US Naval Institute Press, 2023). Philip C. Shackelford is currently serving as the Library Director at South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado, Arkansas. He is a past president of the Arkansas Library Association, and is committed to supporting the Arkansas library community in a variety of other capacities. As a military historian, Philip Shackelford brings a unique focus on organizational culture and development to the history of communications intelligence, national security, and the U.S. Air Force. Stephen Satkiewicz is an independent scholar whose research areas are related to Civilizational Analysis, Social Complexity, Big History, Historical Sociology, military history, War studies, International Relations, Geopolitics, as well as Russian and East European history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

The U.S. Air Force had to struggle to establish itself as an independent branch of the American military, and originally was an extension of the Army. The experiences during World War II (1939-1945) and the beginning of the Cold War afterwards helped propel the process towards becoming a separate branch in 1948. An important but less studied aspect of this process was the necessity for the Air Force to have its own special intelligence branch, which would later become the Security Service. Undertaking painstaking operations to decipher enemy communications and intentions, the Security Service thought of itself as the first line of defense for the United States and its NATO allies. The hard-won struggle for the Air Force to be an independent branch of the military marked the Security Service as having a certain maverick status within the larger American military intelligence community. The story of this lesser-known branch of U.S. military intelligence is the subject of Philip C. Shackelford's Rise of the Mavericks: The U.S. Air Force Security Service and the Cold War, 1948-1979 (US Naval Institute Press, 2023). Philip C. Shackelford is currently serving as the Library Director at South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado, Arkansas. He is a past president of the Arkansas Library Association, and is committed to supporting the Arkansas library community in a variety of other capacities. As a military historian, Philip Shackelford brings a unique focus on organizational culture and development to the history of communications intelligence, national security, and the U.S. Air Force. Stephen Satkiewicz is an independent scholar whose research areas are related to Civilizational Analysis, Social Complexity, Big History, Historical Sociology, military history, War studies, International Relations, Geopolitics, as well as Russian and East European history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The U.S. Air Force had to struggle to establish itself as an independent branch of the American military, and originally was an extension of the Army. The experiences during World War II (1939-1945) and the beginning of the Cold War afterwards helped propel the process towards becoming a separate branch in 1948. An important but less studied aspect of this process was the necessity for the Air Force to have its own special intelligence branch, which would later become the Security Service. Undertaking painstaking operations to decipher enemy communications and intentions, the Security Service thought of itself as the first line of defense for the United States and its NATO allies. The hard-won struggle for the Air Force to be an independent branch of the military marked the Security Service as having a certain maverick status within the larger American military intelligence community. The story of this lesser-known branch of U.S. military intelligence is the subject of Philip C. Shackelford's Rise of the Mavericks: The U.S. Air Force Security Service and the Cold War, 1948-1979 (US Naval Institute Press, 2023). Philip C. Shackelford is currently serving as the Library Director at South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado, Arkansas. He is a past president of the Arkansas Library Association, and is committed to supporting the Arkansas library community in a variety of other capacities. As a military historian, Philip Shackelford brings a unique focus on organizational culture and development to the history of communications intelligence, national security, and the U.S. Air Force. Stephen Satkiewicz is an independent scholar whose research areas are related to Civilizational Analysis, Social Complexity, Big History, Historical Sociology, military history, War studies, International Relations, Geopolitics, as well as Russian and East European history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The U.S. Air Force had to struggle to establish itself as an independent branch of the American military, and originally was an extension of the Army. The experiences during World War II (1939-1945) and the beginning of the Cold War afterwards helped propel the process towards becoming a separate branch in 1948. An important but less studied aspect of this process was the necessity for the Air Force to have its own special intelligence branch, which would later become the Security Service. Undertaking painstaking operations to decipher enemy communications and intentions, the Security Service thought of itself as the first line of defense for the United States and its NATO allies. The hard-won struggle for the Air Force to be an independent branch of the military marked the Security Service as having a certain maverick status within the larger American military intelligence community. The story of this lesser-known branch of U.S. military intelligence is the subject of Philip C. Shackelford's Rise of the Mavericks: The U.S. Air Force Security Service and the Cold War, 1948-1979 (US Naval Institute Press, 2023). Philip C. Shackelford is currently serving as the Library Director at South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado, Arkansas. He is a past president of the Arkansas Library Association, and is committed to supporting the Arkansas library community in a variety of other capacities. As a military historian, Philip Shackelford brings a unique focus on organizational culture and development to the history of communications intelligence, national security, and the U.S. Air Force. Stephen Satkiewicz is an independent scholar whose research areas are related to Civilizational Analysis, Social Complexity, Big History, Historical Sociology, military history, War studies, International Relations, Geopolitics, as well as Russian and East European history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

The U.S. Air Force had to struggle to establish itself as an independent branch of the American military, and originally was an extension of the Army. The experiences during World War II (1939-1945) and the beginning of the Cold War afterwards helped propel the process towards becoming a separate branch in 1948. An important but less studied aspect of this process was the necessity for the Air Force to have its own special intelligence branch, which would later become the Security Service. Undertaking painstaking operations to decipher enemy communications and intentions, the Security Service thought of itself as the first line of defense for the United States and its NATO allies. The hard-won struggle for the Air Force to be an independent branch of the military marked the Security Service as having a certain maverick status within the larger American military intelligence community. The story of this lesser-known branch of U.S. military intelligence is the subject of Philip C. Shackelford's Rise of the Mavericks: The U.S. Air Force Security Service and the Cold War, 1948-1979 (US Naval Institute Press, 2023). Philip C. Shackelford is currently serving as the Library Director at South Arkansas Community College in El Dorado, Arkansas. He is a past president of the Arkansas Library Association, and is committed to supporting the Arkansas library community in a variety of other capacities. As a military historian, Philip Shackelford brings a unique focus on organizational culture and development to the history of communications intelligence, national security, and the U.S. Air Force. Stephen Satkiewicz is an independent scholar whose research areas are related to Civilizational Analysis, Social Complexity, Big History, Historical Sociology, military history, War studies, International Relations, Geopolitics, as well as Russian and East European history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/national-security

On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines (US Naval Institute Press, 2021) traces the history of the development of military staffs and ideas on the operational level of war and operational art from the Napoleonic Wars to today, viewing them through the lens of Prussia/Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States. B. A. Friedman concludes that the operational level of war should be rejected as fundamentally flawed, but that operational art is an accurate description of the activities of the military staff, an organization developed to provide the brainpower necessary to manage the complexity of modern military operations. Rather than simply serve as an intercession between levels, the military staff exists as an enabler and supporting organization to tacticians and strategists alike. On Operations examines the organization of military staffs, which has changed little since Napoleon's time. Historical examinations of the functions staffs provided to commanders, and the disciplines of the staff officers themselves, leads to conclusions about how best to organize staffs in the future. Friedman demonstrates these ideas through case studies of historical campaigns based on the military discipline system developed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines (US Naval Institute Press, 2021) traces the history of the development of military staffs and ideas on the operational level of war and operational art from the Napoleonic Wars to today, viewing them through the lens of Prussia/Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States. B. A. Friedman concludes that the operational level of war should be rejected as fundamentally flawed, but that operational art is an accurate description of the activities of the military staff, an organization developed to provide the brainpower necessary to manage the complexity of modern military operations. Rather than simply serve as an intercession between levels, the military staff exists as an enabler and supporting organization to tacticians and strategists alike. On Operations examines the organization of military staffs, which has changed little since Napoleon's time. Historical examinations of the functions staffs provided to commanders, and the disciplines of the staff officers themselves, leads to conclusions about how best to organize staffs in the future. Friedman demonstrates these ideas through case studies of historical campaigns based on the military discipline system developed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines (US Naval Institute Press, 2021) traces the history of the development of military staffs and ideas on the operational level of war and operational art from the Napoleonic Wars to today, viewing them through the lens of Prussia/Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States. B. A. Friedman concludes that the operational level of war should be rejected as fundamentally flawed, but that operational art is an accurate description of the activities of the military staff, an organization developed to provide the brainpower necessary to manage the complexity of modern military operations. Rather than simply serve as an intercession between levels, the military staff exists as an enabler and supporting organization to tacticians and strategists alike. On Operations examines the organization of military staffs, which has changed little since Napoleon's time. Historical examinations of the functions staffs provided to commanders, and the disciplines of the staff officers themselves, leads to conclusions about how best to organize staffs in the future. Friedman demonstrates these ideas through case studies of historical campaigns based on the military discipline system developed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/military-history

On Operations: Operational Art and Military Disciplines (US Naval Institute Press, 2021) traces the history of the development of military staffs and ideas on the operational level of war and operational art from the Napoleonic Wars to today, viewing them through the lens of Prussia/Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States. B. A. Friedman concludes that the operational level of war should be rejected as fundamentally flawed, but that operational art is an accurate description of the activities of the military staff, an organization developed to provide the brainpower necessary to manage the complexity of modern military operations. Rather than simply serve as an intercession between levels, the military staff exists as an enabler and supporting organization to tacticians and strategists alike. On Operations examines the organization of military staffs, which has changed little since Napoleon's time. Historical examinations of the functions staffs provided to commanders, and the disciplines of the staff officers themselves, leads to conclusions about how best to organize staffs in the future. Friedman demonstrates these ideas through case studies of historical campaigns based on the military discipline system developed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/national-security

BONUS EPISODE: Laura and Kevin Talk AFCEA West.  AFCEA WEST connects the industry professionals who design and build the platforms, equipment and weapons with the designers of communications and technical systems.The premier naval conference and exposition on the West Coast, WEST is now in its 33rd year of bringing military and industry leaders together. Co-sponsored by AFCEA International and the U.S. Naval Institute, WEST is the only event in which the makers of platforms and the designers of technologies can network, discuss and demonstrate their solutions in a single locale.One recurring highlight of WEST is the chance to hear from the Sea Service Chiefs - the Chief of Naval Operations, the Marine Corps Commandant and the Coast Guard Commandant. In addition to the main program, WEST offers three Engagement Theaters: Marine, General, and Information Warfare. These smaller, more intimate venues allow military, government and industry professionals to drill deeper into specific topics and issues. More information about WEST speakers and panel presentations is available online.Wasabi is fundamentally transforming cloud storage with the industry's simplest, fastest and most affordable storage solution. Unlike legacy cloud storage services with confusing storage tiers and complex pricing schemes, Wasabi storage is inherently easy to implement and incredibly cost-effective to scale. 

Transitioning service members, do you know how to make the most of your military training once you transition into the civilian workforce?   Corporate leaders, do know how to optimize your veteran employees' potential for success?    That's why author and consultant Captain William Toti, US Navy (Retired) and former CEO of Sparton Corporation, wrote “From CO to CEO: A Practical Guide for Transitioning from Military to Industry Leadership.”  With more than 26 years of service in the U.S. Navy and more than 40 years of experience in the defense industry, Captain Toti joins FourBlock Founder Mike Abrams on this week's episode of The FourBlock Podcast to share his personal experience, professional expertise, and practical insights to help transitioning service members make the most of their military training and learn what more is needed to rise up the ranks in the C-suite. For employers, he also shares what corporate leaders can do to maximize the potential for their veteran employees' success.  Captain Toti has more than 40 years of experience in defense. In three years as CEO of Sparton, he was able to restructure and double the company's value, taking it through the sale of Sparton by Cerberus Capital Management to Elbit Systems of America. Prior to joining Sparton he spent more than a decade running multi-billion-dollar global defense businesses, for both products and services, including as president of the Integrated Maritime Systems sector at L3, as vice president of the defense segment of HP, HPE, and DXC, as president of Cubic Global Defense, and as vice president of Raytheon's Mission Support Operations. He has served on Boards of Directors of ERAPSCO, JT3, and the Italian defense company Calzoni.  Captain Toti also served for more than 26 years in the U.S. Navy, including tours as commander of Fleet Antisubmarine Warfare Command Norfolk, as commodore of Submarine Squadron 3, and as commanding officer of the nuclear fast attack submarine USS Indianapolis (SSN-697). He served for more than nine years in the Pentagon, including tours as special assistant to the Vice Chief of Naval Operations, as Navy representative to the Joint Requirements Oversight Council, and as deputy director of the Navy War Plans Cell, Deep Blue. Mr. Toti is the creator/author of the US Navy's current “Full Spectrum Antisubmarine Warfare” concept of operations.  Captain Toti holds a bachelor's degree in physics from the U.S. Naval Academy, a master's degree in spacecraft systems engineering, the pre-doctoral Electrical Engineer degree from the Naval Postgraduate School, and has done executive coursework at the Harvard Business School. He served as a Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution and as a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar XXI Fellow in International Affairs. He has more than 30 published articles and op-ed pieces and was the U.S. Naval Institute Author of the Year in 2001. He was a 2012 member of the White House Roundtable on Military Credentialing in support of an initiative to help transitioning service members receive civilian credentials and licenses.  Captain Toti has worked to support the survivors of the World War II cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) for more than 25 years, was named an honorary survivor and their honorary captain in 2005, and has been featured in several global release documentaries on that storied ship, including “USS Indianapolis: Live from the Deep” (2017, PBS), “USS Indianapolis: Legacy Project” (2016, Tiny Horse Productions), and “USS Indianapolis: the Final Chapter” (2019, PBS).  His narrative titled “Antoinette,” describing his experiences during the September 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon was incorporated into the book Operation Homecoming, published by Random House (2006). He was featured in the 2016 PBS documentary, “9/11: Inside the Pentagon” and the 2020 History Channel documentary “9/11: The Pentagon.”, and the 2021 National Geographic six-part docuseries, “9/11: One Day in America.”  Captain Toti is a seven-time recipient of the Legion of Merit, a recipient of the “Wash 100” list of most influential leaders in the government contractor sector (2016), HP Executive of the Year (2013), the FedScoop 50 Industry Leadership Award (2012), and the Rear Admiral John J. Bergen Industry Award from the Navy League of the United States (2010). He is a lifetime member of the U.S. Naval Institute, the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, the National Eagle Scouts Association, and as an adult leader was awarded the Honor Medal by the Boy Scouts of America (2002).  You can find Captain Toti's book, “From CO to CEO: A Practical Guide for Transitioning from Military to Industry Leadership" at https://a.co/d/5SDmFDE.    ABOUT US Welcome to the FourBlock Podcast, a show that examines veteran career transition and the military-civilian divide in the workplace. General Charles Krulak coined the term "Three Block War" to describe the nature of 21st-century military service defined by peace-keeping, humanitarian aid, and full combat. But what happens next? Veterans are often unprepared to return home and begin new careers. We call this the Fourth Block.  FourBlock is a national non-profit that has supported thousands of transitioning service members across the nation in beginning new and meaningful careers.  Mike Abrams (@fourblock) is an Afghanistan veteran, founder of FourBlock, and author of two military transition books. He represents the military transition perspective. Lindsey Pollak (@lindsaypollak) is a career and workplace expert and New York Times bestselling author of three career advice books. Lindsey represents the civilian perspective of this issue.  Veterans, explore new industries and make the right connections. Find a career that fits your calling. Join us at fourblock.org/ Sponsor our program or host a class to equip more of our veterans at fourblock.org/donate. Follow FourBlock on Social Media  LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Twitter Podcast episodes are produced and edited in part by the Columbia University Center for Veteran Transition and Integration.  

By Jared Samuelson Author Scot Christenson joins the program to discuss his book, Cats in the Navy, about these trusted companions who sailed the seas with navies around the globe. Scot is the director of communications for the U.S. Naval Institute. Download Sea Control 403 – Cats in the Navy with Scot Christenson Links 1. Cats … Continue reading Sea Control 403 – Cats in the Navy with Scot Christenson →

It's been a news-heavy week, but we have the most fun in this episode with ChatGPT. Jane Bambauer, Richard Stiennon, and I pick over the astonishing number of use cases and misuse cases disclosed by the release of ChatGPT for public access. It is talented—writing dozens of term papers in seconds. It is sociopathic—the term papers are full of falsehoods, down to the made-up citations to plausible but nonexistent New York Times stories. And it has too many lawyers—Richard's request that it provide his bio (or even Einstein's) was refused on what are almost certainly data protection grounds. Luckily, either ChatGPT or its lawyers are also bone stupid, since reframing the question fools the machine into subverting the legal and PC limits it labors under. I speculate that it beat Google to a public relations triumph precisely because Google had even more lawyers telling their artificial intelligence what not to say. In a surprisingly under covered story, Apple has gone all in on child pornography. Its phone encryption already makes the iPhone a safe place to record child sexual abuse material (CSAM); now Apple will encrypt users' cloud storage with keys it cannot access, allowing customers to upload CSAM without fear of law enforcement. And it has abandoned its effort to identify such material by doing phone-based screening. All that's left of its effort is a weak option that allows parents to force their kids to activate an option that prevents them from sending or receiving nude photos. Jane and I dig into the story, as well as Apple's questionable claim to be offering the same encryption to its Chinese customers. Nate Jones brings us up to date on the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA. Lots of second-tier cyber provisions made it into the bill, but not the provision requiring that critical infrastructure companies report security breaches. A contested provision on spyware purchases by the U.S. government was compromised into a useful requirement that the intelligence community identify spyware that poses risks to the government. Jane updates us on what European data protectionists have in store for Meta, and it's not pretty. The EU data protection supervisory board intends to tell the Meta companies that they cannot give people a free social media network in exchange for watching what they do on the network and serving ads based on their behavior. If so, it's a one-two punch. Apple delivered the first blow by curtailing Meta's access to third-party behavioral data. Now even first-party data could be off limits in Europe. That's a big revenue hit, and it raises questions whether Facebook will want to keep giving away its services in Europe.   Mike Masnick is Glenn Greenwald with a tech bent—often wrong but never in doubt, and contemptuous of anyone who disagrees. But when he is right, he is right. Jane and I discuss his article recognizing that data protection is becoming a tool that the rich and powerful can use to squash annoying journalist-investigators. I have been saying this for decades. But still, welcome to the party, Mike! Nate points to a plea for more controls on the export of personal data from the U.S. It comes not from the usual privacy enthusiasts but from the U.S. Naval Institute, and it makes sense. It was a bad week for Europe on the Cyberlaw Podcast. Jane and I take time to marvel at the story of France's Mr. Privacy and the endless appetite of Europe's bureaucrats for his serial grifting. Nate and I cover what could be a good resolution to the snake-bitten cloud contract process at the Department of Defense. The Pentagon is going to let four cloud companies—Google, Amazon, Oracle And Microsoft—share the prize. You did not think we would forget Twitter, did you? Jane, Richard, and I all comment on the Twitter Files. Consensus: the journalists claiming these stories are nothingburgers are more driven by ideology than news. Especially newsworthy are the remarkable proliferation of shadowbanning tools Twitter developed for suppressing speech it didn't like, and some considerable though anecdotal evidence that the many speech rules at the company were twisted to suppress speech from the right, even when the rules did not quite fit, as with LibsofTikTok, while similar behavior on the left went unpunished. Richard tells us what it feels like to be on the receiving end of a Twitter shadowban.  The podcast introduces a new feature: “We Read It So You Don't Have To,” and Nate provides the tl;dr on an New York Times story: How the Global Spyware Industry Spiraled Out of Control. And in quick hits and updates: Jane covers the San Francisco city council's reversion to the mean. On second thought, it will not be letting killer police robots out on San Francisco's streets. Nate tells us that the Netherlands (and Japan, I might add) is likely to align with the U.S. and impose new curbs on chip-making equipment sales to China.

It's been a news-heavy week, but we have the most fun in this episode with ChatGPT. Jane Bambauer, Richard Stiennon, and I pick over the astonishing number of use cases and misuse cases disclosed by the release of ChatGPT for public access. It is talented—writing dozens of term papers in seconds. It is sociopathic—the term papers are full of falsehoods, down to the made-up citations to plausible but nonexistent New York Times stories. And it has too many lawyers—Richard's request that it provide his bio (or even Einstein's) was refused on what are almost certainly data protection grounds. Luckily, either ChatGPT or its lawyers are also bone stupid, since reframing the question fools the machine into subverting the legal and PC limits it labors under. I speculate that it beat Google to a public relations triumph precisely because Google had even more lawyers telling their artificial intelligence what not to say. In a surprisingly under covered story, Apple has gone all in on child pornography. Its phone encryption already makes the iPhone a safe place to record child sexual abuse material (CSAM); now Apple will encrypt users' cloud storage with keys it cannot access, allowing customers to upload CSAM without fear of law enforcement. And it has abandoned its effort to identify such material by doing phone-based screening. All that's left of its effort is a weak option that allows parents to force their kids to activate an option that prevents them from sending or receiving nude photos. Jane and I dig into the story, as well as Apple's questionable claim to be offering the same encryption to its Chinese customers. Nate Jones brings us up to date on the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA. Lots of second-tier cyber provisions made it into the bill, but not the provision requiring that critical infrastructure companies report security breaches. A contested provision on spyware purchases by the U.S. government was compromised into a useful requirement that the intelligence community identify spyware that poses risks to the government. Jane updates us on what European data protectionists have in store for Meta, and it's not pretty. The EU data protection supervisory board intends to tell the Meta companies that they cannot give people a free social media network in exchange for watching what they do on the network and serving ads based on their behavior. If so, it's a one-two punch. Apple delivered the first blow by curtailing Meta's access to third-party behavioral data. Now even first-party data could be off limits in Europe. That's a big revenue hit, and it raises questions whether Facebook will want to keep giving away its services in Europe.   Mike Masnick is Glenn Greenwald with a tech bent—often wrong but never in doubt, and contemptuous of anyone who disagrees. But when he is right, he is right. Jane and I discuss his article recognizing that data protection is becoming a tool that the rich and powerful can use to squash annoying journalist-investigators. I have been saying this for decades. But still, welcome to the party, Mike! Nate points to a plea for more controls on the export of personal data from the U.S. It comes not from the usual privacy enthusiasts but from the U.S. Naval Institute, and it makes sense. It was a bad week for Europe on the Cyberlaw Podcast. Jane and I take time to marvel at the story of France's Mr. Privacy and the endless appetite of Europe's bureaucrats for his serial grifting. Nate and I cover what could be a good resolution to the snake-bitten cloud contract process at the Department of Defense. The Pentagon is going to let four cloud companies—Google, Amazon, Oracle And Microsoft—share the prize. You did not think we would forget Twitter, did you? Jane, Richard, and I all comment on the Twitter Files. Consensus: the journalists claiming these stories are nothingburgers are more driven by ideology than news. Especially newsworthy are the remarkable proliferation of shadowbanning tools Twitter developed for suppressing speech it didn't like, and some considerable though anecdotal evidence that the many speech rules at the company were twisted to suppress speech from the right, even when the rules did not quite fit, as with LibsofTikTok, while similar behavior on the left went unpunished. Richard tells us what it feels like to be on the receiving end of a Twitter shadowban.  The podcast introduces a new feature: “We Read It So You Don't Have To,” and Nate provides the tl;dr on an New York Times story: How the Global Spyware Industry Spiraled Out of Control. And in quick hits and updates: Jane covers the San Francisco city council's reversion to the mean. On second thought, it will not be letting killer police robots out on San Francisco's streets. Nate tells us that the Netherlands (and Japan, I might add) is likely to align with the U.S. and impose new curbs on chip-making equipment sales to China.

Captain William Toti, US Navy (Retired), has more than 40 years of experience in defense. In three years as CEO of Sparton, he was able to restructure and double the company's value, taking it through the sale of Sparton by Cerberus Capital Management to Elbit Systems of America. Prior to joining Sparton he spent more than a decade running multi-billion-dollar global defense businesses, for both products and services, including as president of the Integrated Maritime Systems sector at L3, as vice president of the defense segment of HP, HPE, and DXC, as president of Cubic Global Defense, and as vice president of Raytheon's Mission Support Operations. He has served on Boards of Directors of ERAPSCO, JT3, and the Italian defense company Calzoni.Captain Toti also served for more than 26 years in the U.S. Navy, including tours as commander of Fleet Antisubmarine Warfare Command Norfolk, as commodore of Submarine Squadron 3, and as commanding officer of the nuclear fast attack submarine USS Indianapolis (SSN-697). He served for more than nine years in the Pentagon, including tours as special assistant to the Vice Chief of Naval Operations, as Navy representative to the Joint Requirements Oversight Council, and as deputy director of the Navy War Plans Cell, Deep Blue. Mr. Toti is the creator/author of the US Navy's current “Full Spectrum Antisubmarine Warfare” concept of operations.Captain Toti holds a bachelor's degree in physics from the U.S. Naval Academy, a master's degree in spacecraft systems engineering, the pre-doctoral Electrical Engineer degree from the Naval Postgraduate School, and has done executive coursework at the Harvard Business School. He served as a Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution and as a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar XXI Fellow in International Affairs. He has more than 30 published articles and op-ed pieces and was the U.S. Naval Institute Author of the Year in 2001. He was a 2012 member of the White House Roundtable on Military Credentialing in support of an initiative to help transitioning service members receive civilian credentials and licenses.Mr. Toti has worked to support the survivors of the World War II cruiser USS Indianapolis (CA-35) for more than 25 years, was named an honorary survivor and their honorary captain in 2005, and has been featured in several global release documentaries on that storied ship, including “USS Indianapolis: Live from the Deep” (2017, PBS), “USS Indianapolis: Legacy Project” (2016, Tiny Horse Productions), and “USS Indianapolis: the Final Chapter” (2019, PBS).His narrative titled “Antoinette,” describing his experiences during the September 11, 2001, attack on the Pentagon was incorporated into the book Operation Homecoming, published by Random House (2006). He was featured in the 2016 PBS documentary, “9/11: Inside the Pentagon” and the 2020 History Channel documentary “9/11: The Pentagon.”, and the 2021 National Geographic six-part docuseries, “9/11: One Day in America.”Captain William Toti, US Navy (Retired), is a seven-time recipient of the Legion of Merit, a recipient of the “Wash 100” list of most influential leaders in the government contractor sector (2016), HP Executive of the Year (2013), the FedScoop 50 Industry Leadership Award (2012), and the Rear Admiral John J. Bergen Industry Award from the Navy League of the United States (2010). He is a lifetime member of the U.S. Naval Institute, the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association, the National Eagle Scouts Association, and as an adult leader was awarded the Honor Medal by the Boy Scouts of America (2002).www.williamtoti.comwww.livelifedriven.com

We commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis with Michael Whitby, Senior Naval Historian with the Canadian Ministry of Defence, and the previously highly classified story of the “Cuban Crisis, Northern Vantage.” To read the article from today's episode, visit: https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/october/cuban-crisis-northern-vantage This content is made possible by the members of the U.S. Naval Institute. For additional details about the Naval Institute, visit: www.usni.org/join.

Host Bill Hamblet sits down with Dr. Bilyana Lilly—author of Russian Information Warfare (Naval Institute Press, 2022)—to discuss Russian cyber disruption, disinformation, and Russia's ongoing information warfare campaign in Ukraine. For more information or to purchase Dr. Lilly's book, visit: https://www.usni.org/press/books/russian-information-warfare This content is made possible by the members of the U.S. Naval Institute. For additional details about the Naval Institute, visit: https://www.usni.org/join

Ward Carroll joins host Bill Hamblet to reflect on his time with the Naval Institute, and what comes next.

Military historian and journalist Ed Offley, talking about his lifelong relationship with aircraft carriers, with a nostalgic look at the many carriers he served on during his 20-year Navy career. To view the video of this podcast, check out our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM9Fpnhle5w This content is made possible by the members of the U.S. Naval Institute. For additional details about the Naval Institute, visit: https://www.usni.org/join

Seain, Keegan, and Joe were the last three DUSTOFF medics in Afghanistan during the 2021 U.S. withdrawal. In this episode, they describe their experiences in the days and weeks leading up to the attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport's Abbey Gate.ProPublica is a non-profit news site that published a comprehensive account of the Abbey Gate attack earlier this year; you can read it here. The U.S. Central Command conducted an investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding the attack; that report is available on the U.S. Naval Institute's website.

Adam Minakowski, Assistant Archivist in Special Collections & Archives at the U.S. Naval Academy's Nimitz Library, delves into the bizarre case of a midshipman, his mother, suspicious goings-on, and the threat of wartime espionage, in “The Annapolis Spies of World War I.” To read the article, visit: https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/august/annapolis-spies-world-war-i This content is made possible by the members of the U.S. Naval Institute. For additional details about the Naval Institute, visit: https://www.usni.org/join

Benjamin Griffin, author of Reagan's War Stories: A Cold War Presidency, talks about the late Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and his relationship with U.S. President Ronald Reagan. For more information on Ben's book, click here: usni.org/press/books/reagans-war-stories Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest content from the Proceedings Podcast, and more from the U.S. Naval Institute! This content is made possible by the members of the U.S. Naval Institute. For additional details about the Naval Institute, visit: https://www.usni.org/join

Captain Jim Fanell, U.S. Navy (Ret.)—noted expert on the Chinese Navy, former Director of Intelligence for the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and frequent Proceedings contributor—will provide an in-depth briefing on the Chinese Navy, its operations, and shipbuilding programs. This content is made possible by the members of the U.S. Naval Institute. For additional details about the Naval Institute, visit: https://www.usni.org/join

For ships in port, fires are not only more likely, but also more challenging (as illustrated by the USS Bon­homme Richard (LHD-6) and USS Miami (SSN-755) fires). The Navy must build firefighting proficiency across every watch team. To read MK & Joel's article from the August issue, visit: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2022/august/every-sailor-firefighter This content is made possible by the members of the U.S. Naval Institute. For additional details about the Naval Institute, visit: https://www.usni.org/join

Proceedings author Major General Gregg F. Martin, U.S. Army (Retired), discusses his journey back to himself, and what the military can do to help its members deal with mental health conditions. To read General Martin's article, visit: https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2022/august/bipolar-general-what-can-we-learn Subscribe to our YouTube channel for the latest content from the Proceedings Podcast, and more from the U.S. Naval Institute! https://www.youtube.com/c/USNavalInstitute This content is made possible by the members of the U.S. Naval Institute. For additional details about the Naval Institute, visit: https://www.usni.org/join