Dr. Heather Haley joins the program to discuss invented traditions and the imagined community of the battleship USS Alabama. Heather is a historian at the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Author Trent Hone rejoins the formation to discuss his book Mastering the Art of Command: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Victory in the Pacific. Trent is an authority on the U.S. Navy of the early twentieth century and a leader in the application of complexity science to organizational design.
Zachary Kallenborn comes aboard to discuss the efficacy and impacts of using drone swarms in amphibious operations. Zachary is an Adjunct Fellow (Non-resident) with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Policy Fellow at the Schar School of Policy and Government, Fellow at the National Institute for Deterrence Studies and national security consultant.
Jaime Karremann joins the program to discuss his book on Dutch Cold War submarine operations, In Deepest Secrecy: Dutch Submarine Espionage Operations from 1968 to 1991. Jaime is a naval journalist who writes primarily for his Dutch website Marineschepen.nl.