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There are six episodes on the podcast as of 25 Sept 2021. They are:
21 Apr 2021 Introducing the History of Crows (1 min)
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2 June 2021 A New Epoch (20 min)
Mr. Charles “Chuck” Quintero from the Johns Hopkins University of Applied Physics Laboratory, who discusses the evolution of natural philosophy from Sir Isaac Newton to James Clerk Maxwell to Heinrich Hertz. 5/
16 June 2021 Sparks Across the Atlantic (17 Min)
Harry Klancer and Al Klace from the Information Age Learning Center trace the life of Guglielmo Marconi through his dreams as a young engineer to the shrewd businessman who ushered in the dawn of the Electronic Age.
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28 Jul 2021 The Echo (23 min)
Mr. Ray Chase from the Information Age Learning Center and Mr. Mike Simmons from the National Electronics Museum share the story about early radar development and electromagnetic warfare in the early 20th Century. 7/
11 Aug 2021 Beam Wars (23 min)
Radar historian, Dr. Phil Judkins, University of Leeds, U.K. tells the little told stories of EW in WWII, starting with the Battle of Britain walking through The Beam Wars in the blitz.
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22 Sept 2021 Codebreakers
Dr. Phil Judkins from Leeds University and Mr. John Stubbington, former RAF Wing Commander responsible for ECM Development with the Bomber Command Development Unit and the author of "Kept in the Dark" walks you through the RAF SIGINT reports in WW2.
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Declarations of interest:
I'm a dues paying member of the A.O.C. and the podcast series is corporately sponsored by B.A.E.
This thread is my own & independent of either A.O.C. or it's chapters behest.
I'm tempted to say the difference between military flag ranks who are competent at 2026 peer to peer warfare, and those who are not, is the understanding and application of attritional loss curves to combat loss rates, electronic warfare and logistics.
The set of curves I had an AI produce for me above have been used for air warfare many times starting at the end of WW2, in the USSBS after WW2 and by many classic RAND airpower studies from the 1950's to 1980's.
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All post 9/11/2001 Western flag ranks are counter-insurgency (COIN) trained & experienced.
They have no gut feel at all to statistical attrition models at all.
These "COIN-head" flags may prove to be highly resistant to changing this. Which is required to deal with drones.
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The effectiveness of drones is directly affected by the electronic warfare competence of the drone users.
The fact that the US Army defenestrated every EW practitioner in the 2000's and has compete "EW virgins" as flag rank leadership means it will fail with mass casualties in its first major drone war combat.
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3. The shooter arrived at the hotel the day before the event.😯
4. TSA rules require firearms to be transported in checked baggage, unloaded, and locked in a hard-sided container, declared to the airline at check-in.
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5. Local DC law requires firearms in vehicles to be inaccessible from the passenger compartment and unloaded.
6. Washington DC is not a "safe passage" jurisdiction for non-residents without a license. The shooter lacked this license.
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USN flag ranks & their staffers have been fighting the idea of distant economic blockade of China tooth an nail as a response to China invading Taiwan for 30 years.
They really don't want a recent precedent of a successful blockade...
...to prevent their Carrier fleet Pickett's charge into the South China Sea.
Specifically distant blockade as a strategy against China makes having/regaining 100 Cold War era
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...frigates and destroyer tenders supporting them on distant blockade stations outside the 2nd Island chain, "budget relevant" for a military strategy of conducting three years of blockade enforcement.
I was calling out two dead for every three Russian wounded in Sept 2022 as the more realistic Russian casualty ratio in Ukraine because it was taking more than 24 hours to get to the equivalent of a battalion aid station.