Dr. Seth Cropsey joins the program to discuss the dimensions of the Ukrainian War in the Black Sea. Dr. Cropsey is the founder and president of the Yorktown Institute. He served as a naval officer, as assistant to the Secretary of Defense, and as deputy Undersecretary of the Navy during the Reagan administration.
Dr. Sara Caputo joins us to discuss her bottom-up look at the medical culture of the British seaman at the end of the 19th century. Dr. Caputo is an affiliated lecturer at the University of Cambridge and a Lumley Research Fellow in History.
To celebrate 200 episodes since our relaunch, we watched Top Gun: Maverick!! I’m joined by TOPGUN grad Graham Scarbro and retired Naval Aviatrix and Public Affairs Officer Sarah Higgins to capture all of our reactions to seeing Maverick on the Big Screen again 35 years later. Spoilers ahead!
Julian Pawlak and Dr. Antoni Pienkos join the program to discuss maritime security perspectives of Poland, Portugal, and Greece. Julian Pawlak is research associate at the Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (HSU) and the German Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies (GIDS), the think tank of the German Armed Forces. Dr. Pienkos is the head of the Planning and Control Unit at the MIECZNIK Program Management Office in Warsaw, Poland.
