"The USS Monitor and The Mariners’ Museum," presented by Howard Hoege and John Quarstein. Whenever you see a turret on a modern navy warship think of the iconic Civil War ironclad, the USS Monitor. Rated as one of the top five deadliest experimental warships in naval history, the Monitor is in the same league as […]
“Cassandra in Oz: Counterinsurgency and Future War,” by Conrad Crane. When Conrad Crane retired from active duty to become a research professor, he never expected to become a modern Cassandra, fated to tell truth to power without being heeded. After the world transformed on 9/11, he warned the Army that it was not prepared to […]
“The Sea Mark: Captain John Smith’s Voyage to New England,” by Russell Lawson. By age thirty-four Captain John Smith was already a well-known adventurer and explorer. He had fought as a mercenary in the religious wars of Europe and had won renown for fighting the Turks. He was most famous as the leader of the […]
