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NBN Episodes hosted by Bob:

Military History November 18, 2020

Small Boats and Daring Men

Maritime Raiding, Irregular Warfare, and the Early American Navy

Benjamin F. Armstrong

Hosted by Bob Wintermute
Two centuries before the daring exploits of Navy SEALs and Marine Raiders captured the public imagination, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps were already engaged in similarly perilous missions: raiding pirate camps, attacking enemy ships in the dark of night, and striking enemy facilities and resources on shore. Even John Paul Jones, father of the American navy, saw such irregular operations as critical to naval warfare. With Jones’s own experience …
American Studies August 14, 2019

Beyond the Beach

The Allied War Against France

Stephen Alan Bourque

Hosted by Bob Wintermute
Did the Allied bombing plan for the liberation of France follow a carefully orchestrated plan, or was it executed on an ad-hoc basis with little concern or regard for collateral …
American Studies June 13, 2019

Implacable Foes

War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

Marc Gallicchio and Waldo Heinrich

Hosted by Bob Wintermute
Serious and casual scholars and readers interested in the Pacific War would do well to commit reading Marc Gallicchio’s and Waldo Heinrich’s massive study of the conflict’s last two years …
American Studies March 6, 2019

Progressives in Navy Blue

Maritime Strategy, American Empire, and the Transformation of U.S. Naval Identity, 1873-1898

Scott Mobley

Hosted by Bob Wintermute
This episode of the New Books in Military History podcast is something of a sea change, so to speak, as we turn our attention to naval policy and strategy. Institutional …
American Studies January 18, 2019

General Lesley J. McNair

Unsung Architect of the U.S. Army

Mark T. Calhoun

Hosted by Bob Wintermute
Even now, eighty years after its beginning in Europe, the Second World War continues to exert tremendous cultural and social influence on American historical writing. Perhaps one of the best …
American Studies January 10, 2019

Soldiers of the Nation

Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952

Harry Franqui-Rivera

Hosted by Bob Wintermute
As the island of Puerto Rico transitioned from Spanish to U.S. imperial rule, the military and political mobilization of popular sectors of its society played important roles in the evolution …
American Studies October 29, 2018

The Other Space Race

Eisenhower and the Quest for Aerospace Security

Nicholas Michael Sambaluk

Hosted by Bob Wintermute
Many people place the beginning of the American space program at 7:28pm, October 4, 1957 – the moment the Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik I, into orbit. This …
American Studies August 1, 2018

Bigger Bombs for a Brighter Tomorrow

The Strategic Air Command and American War Plans at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, 1945-1950

John M. Curatola

Hosted by Bob Wintermute
Conventional wisdom has long held the position that between 1945 and 1949, not only did the United States enjoy a monopoly on atomic weapons, but that it was prepared to …
American Studies June 26, 2018

Love and Death in the Great War

Andrew J. Huebner

Hosted by Bob Wintermute
Coincident with the hundredth anniversary of the first American engagements in the First World War, Andrew J. Huebner joins New Books in Military History to talk about his book, Love …
American Studies May 4, 2018

Omar Nelson Bradley

America’s GI General, 1893-1981

Steven L. Ossad

Hosted by Bob Wintermute
Steven L. Ossad joins New Books at Military History to talk about his award-winning biography, Omar Nelson Bradley: America’s GI General, 1893-1981 (University of Missouri Press, 2017). Following the suggestion …
American Studies April 13, 2018

The Road Not Taken

Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam

Max Boot

Hosted by Bob Wintermute
Counterinsurgency doctrine, the Vietnam War, and the vagaries of politics all come together in Max Boot's latest work, The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam …
American Studies February 9, 2018

Westmoreland's War

Reassessing America's Strategy in Vietnam

Gregory A. Daddis

Hosted by Bob Wintermute
In the wake of Ken Burns' most recent series, The Vietnam War, America's fascination with the conflict shows no sign of abating. Fortunately the flood of popular retellings of old …