COMMANDING A BATTLEHSHIP

Follow along as naval historiographer Drachinifel interviews Captain Larry on what it’s like to actually command a battleship.

THE ESSENCE OF COMMAND

Follow-up intervierw by naval historiographer Drachinifel interviewing Captain Larry on a variety of subjects including some interesting and amusing facts about the Iowa class battleships.

GRID

THE GRID—ALL SIDES OF BOTH SIDES IN THE WAR ON TERROR
“…it is impossible to ignore how ground-breaking this show is: It is the entertainment industry’s first unvarnished look at the clash of Western civilization and Islamist terrorism.” Weekly Standard

“…a fast-paced thriller for grown-ups.” New York Times

Larry is the technical advisor to the limited series, THE GRID. THE GRID (Part 1) aired in the U.S. in the summer of 2004. Co-produced by BBC, TNT, and Fox Studios, THE GRID aired in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe in Fall, 2004, and is now being released in other international markets. GRID II is in preparation.

Showing “all sides of both sides”—the worlds of extremist Islamist terrorists and the worlds of the international counter-terrorist teams who oppose them—THE GRID has been praised for its gripping, totally authentic portrait of the lives of terrorists, moderate Muslims, and counter-terror officials. GRID I depicted the struggle of American and British intelligence to track down a new, al Qaeda spin-off cell. GRID II will explore nuclear terrorism.

Working closely with Executive Producer Tracey Alexander, Larry provided the real-world research which she and the writing team translated into fictional but wholly realistic portraits of the evolving war against terrorist violence and its roots.

A glimpse of hell

A GLIMPSE OF HELL—AN (UNNECESSARY) AMERICAN TRAGEDY
Written by 60 Minutes producer Charlie Thompson and published by W.W. Norton, A Glimpse of Hell was turned into a TV movie by Executive Producer Tracey Alexander, starring James Caan and Robert Sean Leonard. Larry worked with Charlie Thompson during the writing of the book. Later invited by Ms. Alexander to become the technical advisor, Larry worked on the film from the script development and pre-production stages, was on set when the movie was shot in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and then assisted in the post-production work in Los Angeles and with marketing the movie.

A Glimpse of Hell tells the story of a double tragedy: a world-renowned ship, the pride of the fleet, her crew drawn from top-drawer volunteers from all over the Navy—and once praised by President Reagan after his visit on board as “absolutely perfect”—fallen into the worst peacetime accident in Navy’s history.

Larry remains deeply concerned about the lack of a just closure to the Iowa “case”: The Navy’s failure to acknowledge its grievous mismanagement of the accident investigations has permanently damaged public confidence in the integrity of Navy’s leadership. Worse, Navy’s failure to do the right thing by the families of the Iowa 47 continues to inflict a cruel and unnecessary injustice both on these fine American families who have lost their beloved son, husband, father, and to tarnish the patriotic service of the thousands of outstanding men who served proudly in Battleship IOWA. Larry remains confident that, one day, a generation of Navy leaders will decide to right this horrific wrong by apologizing to the families, acknowledging the investigatory errors, and celebrating the crew’s many accomplishments.