By Jared Samuelson
Author Dr. Ryan Wadle joins the podcast alongside the Navy’s Vice Chief Information Officer, Rear Admiral Paula Dunn, to discuss his book, Selling Seapower: Publication Relations and the U.S. Navy 1917-1941, the Navy’s relationship with the public, the press, and parallels to today.
Sea Control 242 – Selling Seapower with Dr. Ryan Wadle and RDML Paula Dunn
Links
1. Selling Seapower: Public Relations and the U.S. Navy 1917-1941, by Dr. Ryan Wadle, OU Press, 2019.
2. Testing American Sea Power: U.S. Navy Strategic Exercises, 1923-1940, by Craig C. Felker, Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History, 2013.
3. To Train the Fleet for War: The U.S. Navy Fleet Problems, 1923-1940, by Albert Nofi, Naval War College Press, 2010.
Jared Samuelson is Co-Host and Executive Producer of the Sea Control podcast. Contact him at Seacontrol@cimsec.org.
Great job Ryan. Good to hear again about how second worst Secretary of Defense (after Bob McNamara) cancelled Navy Day during the period of the “revolt of the admirals” in 1949. Did he use Matthews to do that or issue the general order himself? best John