Second Saturday - Civilian Control of the Military

The origins from our Revolutionary War to today, as inspired by Thomas Sheppard’s new book, Commanding Petty Despots.The program is introduced by Tommy Sheppard and our panel includes: Former Undersecretary of the Navy Dino Aviles and Dr. Edward Marolda, author of the phenomenal book, “Admirals Under Fire”.
This program is critical to understanding the origins of civilian control of the Navy and will demonstrate where this control was provided as sound advice, versus those times where the advice might have been questionable. Dr. Marolda’s great book chronicles these issues from the Vietnam war (McNamara/Johnson/Nixon) and Secretary Aviles discusses both sides of these issues from his important view from his budget background as well as his understanding of the longer view of issues.