By Dr. Edward Salo

Dr. Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Founding Director of International Security Studies at Yale University, joins the program to discuss his new book, Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II. Dr. Kennedy examines six major navies of the Second World War, including the allied navies of Britain, France, and the United States, and the Axis navies of Germany, Italy, and Japan. He shows how the strategic landscape for naval affairs was completely altered between 1936 and 1946 with the U.S. Navy emerging as the most powerful naval force in history. The book is also illustrated with paintings by Ian Marshall.

Download Sea Control 378 – Victory at Sea with Dr. Paul Kennedy

Links

1. “Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II,”  by Paul Kennedy, Yale University Press, 2022.
2.Paul Kennedy, J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History, Yale University.
3. “The Navy Made America a Superpower Once. Can It Again?,”  by Alexander Wooley, Foreign Policy, May 20, 2022.
4. “A marriage of the geopolitical, the military and the material — Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II by Paul Kennedy review,” by Lincoln Paine, Englesberg Ideas, June 17, 2022.

Ed Salo is Co-Host and a producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

This episode was edited and produced by Nathan Miller.

By Ed Salo

Sea Control talks to Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor about their new book, The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway. Brendan Simms is a Professor of the history of international relations in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Steven McGregor is a U.S. Army veteran with a graduate degree in history from the University of Cambridge.

Sea Control 352 – The Silver Waterfall: The Battle of Midway with Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor

Links

1. “The Silver Waterfall: How America Won the War in the Pacific at Midway,” by Brendan Simms and Steven McGregor, PublicAffairs, May 17, 2022.
2. “The Importance of the Battle of Midway,” by Tom Hone, War on the Rocks, September 12, 2013.
3. Battle of Midway – Naval History and Heritage Command.
4. Steven McGregor website.
5. Brendan Simms faculty profile.

Ed Salo is Co-Host and a producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact the podcast team at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.

This episode was edited and produced by Jared Samuelson.