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Phillip Meilinger interview about his military history and lessons book “Thoughts on War” (University Press of Kentucky, 2020)

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Phillip Meilinger interview about his military history and lessons book “Thoughts on War”

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Phillip Meilinger has spent decades both in the military as an Air Force officer and teaching military history and issues in staff and war colleges. He’s written numerous essays on military history and he’s collected a number of his essays and reexamined them for this book. We spoke about the book and [subjects] history ranging from Ancient Rome, to Clausewitz, to the US Civil War and on through to World War Two and beyond.

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0:40 – Philip talks about having been a pilot for 30 years and what prompted him to write a book on war.

3:58 – Philip talks about covering ancient to modern warfare in the book.

5:18 – Philip talks about the influence about von Clausewitz on military colleges.

8:03 – Philip talks about Clausewitz’ idea of the bloody battle.

12:11 – Philip talks about how the book reassesses past battles and the impact of air power on war. He also addresses policy in warfare.

18:01- Philip talks about how to make major changes in American doctrine and military policy.

21:08 – Philip talks about the effect of nuclear weapons on waging war.

23:57 – Philip talks about the information age and non-state actors.

27:41 – Philip talks about whether Chinese and Russian military activities are a new kind of warfare.

31:56 – Philip talks about how doctrine does not need to be changed but rather a different approach is needed.

36:01 – Philip talks about raids and punitive actions in modern war.

39:55 – Philip talks about the use and effect of strategic bombing.

44:35 – Philip talks about the budgets for aircraft carriers and new generation jets.

47:58 – Philip talks about balancing the US force and defense spending.

50:20 – Philip talks about how he put the book together.

52:00 – Philip talks about how much the US military was involved in politics in American history.

59:06 – Philip talks about how there was not a unity of command in WWII Europe among the allies.

1:00:34 – Philip talks about air intelligence during WWII.

1:04:13 – Philip talks about the Army Air Corps in WII and a book he wrote on a misconception about their status within the Army.

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https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813178899/thoughts-on-war/

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Guests: Phillip Meilinger

Host: Cris Alvarez

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Maritime and naval history – “Whaling Captains of Color” (Naval Institute Press, 2020) – Skip Finley interview

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Skip Finley spent many years in the radio broadcasting business. He developed a passion for the study of whaling captains and wrote a book on whaling captains of color. This is his first non-fiction book and we spoke about the book and the writing process.

1:06 – Skip talks about how he got into writing on whaling captains.

2:49 – Skip talks about whaling.

5:55 – Skip talks about whaling and the American Revolution.

8:34 – Skip talks about whaling captains impacted by the Revolution.

9:46 – Skip talks about where the British kept prisoners during the American Revolution.

12:10 – Skip talks about the US Civil War how easy it was for the South to destroy whalers.

14:22 – Skip talks about what Confederates did with black whalers they caught.

14:54 – Skip talks about an encounter between a whaler and a German submarine in WWI.

18:38 – Skip talks about whaling between the American Revolution and the US Civil War.

22:34 – Skip talks about where the whaling industry was centered.

25:04 – Skip talks about doing the research for the book.

35:33 – Skip talks about the connection between Navy duty and whaling duty.

38:12 – Skip talks about John Mashall and the types of ships he designed.

39:39 – Skip goes into more detail about the books he used for his research.

43:40 – Skip talks about how one became a whaling captain.

45:24 – Skip talks about how important Nantucket and whaling was to black freedom.

58:33- Skip can be found at skipfinley.com

 

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https://www.usni.org/press/books/whaling-captains-color

https://www.skipfinley.com/

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Guests: Skip Finley

Host: Cris Alvarez

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