First Breakfast

Lord Beaverbrook’s Production Magic

Forceful leadership, media savvy supercharged Spitfire production and won the Battle of Britain.

Sep 16 • 

Austin Gray

24

July 2025

Eugene Fubini, Heretic in the Control Room

He jammed Axis radars, then built the bridge between industry and government in the Cold War.

Jul 23 • 

Ross Fubini

24

Joseph Desch, American Codebreaker

A quiet engineer in Ohio united government and industry to break the Nazi Enigma.

Jul 1 • 

Peter Minetos

10

April 2025

Richard Bissell: The Overhead Economist

Lt Col Matt Sanchez, USAF - Assessments Action Officer, Joint Staff

Apr 2 • 

Matt Sanchez

 and 

Josh Zavilla

13

March 2025

Bud Wheelon, Spy Satellites for the CIA

Wheelon fought McNamara and the NRO to give CIA a piece of the overhead reconnaissance mission

Mar 5 • 

Jon Niewijk

14

February 2025

Admiral Jack Fisher, the Royal Navy's Disruptor-in-Chief

By Arthur Herman

Feb 26

16

January 2025

Orde Wingate, The Pious Heretic

By Talia Dror and Jordan Hirsch

Jan 29

25

Dutch Kindelberger, Mastermind of the Mustang

By John Fredrickson & Brian Fredrickson

Jan 22 • 

Brian Fredrickson

16

Joshua Humphreys, Frigate Forger

Hugh Zabriskie is a Product Manager, Defense & Aerospace, at Applied Intuition.

Jan 15 • 

Hugh Zabriskie

15

Which Heretics and Heroes Should We Profile Next?

Dear Readers — Happy New Year!

Jan 2 • 

Shyam Sankar

, 

Madeline Hart

, and 

Greg Little

12

December 2024

General Leslie Groves, Bringer of the Bomb

When the atomic bomb dubbed “Little Boy” detonated above Hiroshima with the force of 15,000 tons of TNT on August 6, 1945, it changed warfare like no…

Dec 18, 2024 • 

Shyam Sankar

, 

Madeline Hart

, and 

Greg Little

17

November 2024

Pierre Sprey, Warts and All

The man who helped design the A-10 Warthog remains a polarizing figure

Nov 26, 2024 • 

Shyam Sankar

, 

Madeline Hart

, and 

Greg Little

15