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About Scott Lipkowitz
Scott holds an MA in History, with a concentration in military history, and a MLIS, with a concentration in information technology, from Queens College, City University of New York. He is the recipient of the Arnold Franco and Michael Wrezin history prizes, and was selected to present his masters thesis on the engineers of the American Expeditionary Forces as part of a young scholars roundtable at the Society for Military History's 2020 Conference. He is also a member of the Society for the History of Technology.Scott Lipkowitz holds a MA in History, with a concentration in military history, and a MLIS, with a concentration in information technology, from Queens College, City University of New York
NBN Episodes hosted by Scott:
August 10, 2021
Faustian Bargain
German Ambassador Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau believed that Germany and the Soviet Union were locked together in a Schicksalgemienshaft, or “communi…
May 19, 2021
Dragonslayer
Erich Ludendorff is a contentious figure in military history. Focused, energetic, and hailing from humble origins, Ludendorff rose through the ranks o…
April 27, 2021
To Rule the Skies
A sadist. A madman. A sociopath seduced by the terrible allure of nuclear weapons. These are but a few of the pejoratives commonly used to describe U…
March 3, 2021
Forging the Trident
Theodore Roosevelt was a titan of American politics, society, and culture. Rarely soft spoken, always eager to brandish a big stick, and animated by a…
February 4, 2021
The Compleat Victory
British hopes that the American War for Independence would be brought to a swift conclusion began to wane in the early months of 1777. Despite brillia…
January 8, 2021
Adaptation Under Fire
Few human enterprises are as complex, dynamic, and unpredictable as war. Armed conflict substitutes the relatively ordered reality of peace with the u…
November 4, 2020
The Emergence of American Amphibious Warfare, 1898 to 1945
Amphibious warfare, as outlined by American Rear Admiral James E. Jouett in 1885, was a relatively straightforward affair: to project power from the s…
October 5, 2020
COSSAC
D-Day, June 6, 1944, looms large in both popular and historical imaginations as the sin qua non, or single defining moment, of the Second World War. T…
May 22, 2020
Southern Gambit
Charles Lord Cornwallis’s campaign through the southern American colonies came to an ignominious close on October 19, 1781, on an open field outside Y…
April 22, 2020
On Obedience
Obedience is integral to the military, to society, and to communities. To bring individuals together to work cohesively and successfully towards a com…
January 30, 2020
The Rise and Fall of an Officer Corps
Following the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911, two antipodal ideologies vied for control of China's military. The first, advanced by Sun Yat-sen, lea…
July 24, 2019
John S. McCain and the Triumph of Naval Air Power
The carrier task force—the symbolic and physical manifestation of the United States’ ability to project naval and air power across the globe—came of a…