From the Rigging to the Reactor: How the US Navy Learned to Win

In this Footnotes of History mini-episode of The Ready Room Podcast, retired Navy Captain Tim "Lucky" Kinsella explores the long and occasionally embarrassing journey of how the United States Navy realized that professional officers require a formal education. Moving from 1775 to the modern era, the episode examines the philosophical battle between heroism and regulation, and the institutional resistance to every major technological shift from steam power to nuclear reactors.