Longtime PROCEEDINGS Editor-in-chief Fred Rainbow looks back on his Naval Institute career on the eve of his departure from the USNI team.

CAPT Jamie McGrath calls into the show from the Naval War College to discuss his article in the June PROCEEDINGS titled "Would Nimitz Win a Midway Today?" McGrath talks about relative shipbuilding capacity and how Roosevelt made it happen in the '30 and how it can't happen today.

Read his article at https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2018/june/would-nimitz-win-midway-today

VADM Joseph Aucoin, USN (Ret.) calls into the PROCEEDINGS Podcast to discuss his recent article in the magazine titled "It's Not Just the Forward Deployed," which outlines his issues with the Comprehensive Review written following the two collisions at sea last summer that killed 17 sailors.

Read his article at https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2018/april/its-not-just-forward-deployed

Professor James Holmes calls into the show to discuss the "five faces of Chinese sea power" and the roots of Mao's naval strategy.

Read more at https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2018/june/visualize-chinese-sea-power

Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen joins Bill and Ward in the studio to talk about his article from the April issue of PROCEEDINGS regarding adjustments to the surface warfare officer career path in the wake of last summer's collisions at sea.

Read his article at https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2018/april/we-can-fix-swo-career-path

Capt Andrew Jampoler, USN (Ret.) calls into the show to talk about his article in the May PROCEEDINGS about how last summer's collisions at sea and the Fat Leonard scandal are related and reflect poorly on the state of leadership and the profession at large.

Read it at https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2018/may/2017-tested-naval-profession

Maj. Nick Nappi, USMC, calls in from Hawaii to talk to Bill and Ward about how each of the Pacific allies might react in the event of a hot war with China.

Read more at https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2018/may/will-they-fight-china

Lt. (j.g.) Andrea Howard, USN, talks to Bill and Ward about the history of tactical nuclear weapons and the state of current thought with respect to their use.

Read more at https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2018/april/tactical-nuclear-weapons-are-back

Bill and Ward talk to Lt. Joseph Hanacek, USN, about his article in the April PROCEEDINGS titled, "Presence is Not Deterrence," in which he makes a distinction between "active" and "latent" suasion and suggests the Navy is doing too much of the latter while assuming it covers the former.

Read the article at https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2018/april/presence-not-deterrence

Bill and Ward talk to retired Navy Capt. Sam Tangredi about his article in the April PROCEEDINGS dealing with the future of amphibious warfare.

Read it at https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2018/april/amphibs-sea-control-and-power-projection