Midrats

Navy Milbloggers Sal from "CDR Salamander" and EagleOne from "EagleSpeak" discuss leading issues and developments for the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and related national security issues.

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Update frequency: every 10 days
Average duration: 62 minutes
Episodes: 566
Years Active: 2012 - 2025

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Episode 512: Best of the Union and Confederate Navies, with James M. McPherson

The War Between the States, the American Civil War - whichever description you prefer - this crucible on which our nation was re-formed has legion of books, movies, and rhetoric dedicated to it. Mos…

01:02:03 | Fri 01 Nov 2019

Episode 511: Baltic Security with Dr. Sebastian Bruns

From Finland to Denmark, Sweden to Poland - from small Latvia to the Continental power of Germany - the return of Russia has brought a renewed focus the last half decade to the Baltic.

Not just a SLOC…

01:11:47 | Sun 20 Oct 2019

Episode 510: A Half-Baked Navy with Jimmy Drennan and Blake Herzinger

Everyone has half-baked ideas ... some quarter-baked and some three-quarters-baked ... that in a just world of their making would have a funding line.

Are there some ideas so far "out of the box" that…

01:10:00 | Sun 13 Oct 2019

Episode 509: Larger Navy? How About Better USCG Instead?

As the USN continues its slow goodbye to 355 ships, what are some other measures it can use to expand maritime power, presence and influence?

Would better and expanded integration, support, and intero…

01:00:44 | Mon 07 Oct 2019

Episode 508: Best of Confessions of a Major Program Manager, w/ CAPT Mark Vandroff, USN

First aired in October 2015:

One man's chore is another man's hobby. Another man's dread, is the other's fantasy. Such, in a fashion, is Program Management in the Navy.

To be a good one, step one is to…

01:02:18 | Sun 06 Oct 2019

Episode 507: Goldwater–Nichols; Problems and Solutions, Best Of

From the week before the 2016 election, in this episode of Midrats we discuss the systems that trains, mans, and equips our military - and provides guidance and support to their civilian masters is b…

00:32:04 | Mon 30 Sep 2019

Episode 506: Afghanistan in its 18th Year: at the Personal Level

Almost to the day, our direct military involvement in Afghanistan has reached its 18th year. Those Afghans, American, British, and others who were had yet to reach their first birthday when the attac…

01:01:13 | Mon 16 Sep 2019

Episode 505: Sea Shepherd, Public/Private Partnership and Protecting our Seas

Even developed nations have difficulty effectively managing marine resources, enforce pollution controls, and maintain the rule of law in their territorial seas. With most of the world's coastal nati…

01:06:16 | Mon 09 Sep 2019

Episode 504: Best of Baltic Security with Bruce Acker and Dan Lynch

First aired in AUG 2018.

With a resurgent Russia, the security environment from former Soviet Republics to the traditionally neutral nations of Finland and Sweden has changed dramatically.

What are tho…

01:11:37 | Mon 09 Sep 2019

Episode 503: Missile Defense at Sea and Ashore with Tom Karako

Not since the last decade of the Cold War have ballistic missile defense, land based cruise missiles, as well as short, intermediate, and medium range ballistic missiles received this much attention …

01:05:31 | Mon 26 Aug 2019

Episode 502: Red Flag and the Development of USAF Fighter Pilots, Best of

In parallel efforts that in the Navy which led to Top Gun, the US Air Force looked hard at the lessons of air to air combat in the Vietnam War and brought forward "Red Flag,"

Moving beyond the technic…

01:00:16 | Sun 25 Aug 2019

Episode 501: 21st Century Patton, With J. Furman Daniel III, Best of

Put the popular, and mostly accurate, image of the flamboyant General Patton, USA given to us by popular culture to the side for a moment.

Consider the other side of the man; the strategic thinker, st…

01:01:13 | Sun 25 Aug 2019

Episode 500: The War in Yemen, with Katherine Zimmerman

It is a civil war, tribal war, religious war, and proxy war with local, regional, and global implications.

The specific and larger implications of the war in Yemen will be our topic for the full hour …

01:01:38 | Mon 05 Aug 2019

Episode 499: No Summer Break for NATO with Jorge Benitez

From Baltic air policing, through the Russian border areas, to Afghanistan and curling back to the Strait of Hormuz, NATO alliance members are being tested not just by external powers, but by domesti…

01:03:35 | Mon 29 Jul 2019

Episode 498: Mid July Free For All

Beat the heat by joining us today from 5-6pm Eastern for a mid-July maritime free for all.

We're going to cover the chart from Iran seizing Brit owned tankers, to the future impact of growing naval po…

01:05:53 | Mon 22 Jul 2019

Episode 497: The Once, Past, and Future Strait of Hormuz & Gulf of Oman

From limpet mines on tankers, drone shootdowns, and the HMS Montrose just short of loading grape - the decades long story of Iranian posturing in their near seas continues.

A lot sounds familiar, but …

01:07:23 | Tue 16 Jul 2019

Episode 496: Best of Battle School

First aired 3.5 years ago, but worth a re-listen.

How do you design a game that has practical tactical application to the naval tactician? Even more ambitious, how do you make one accessible and unde…

01:05:31 | Tue 16 Jul 2019

Episode 495: Countering China in the South China Sea with Hunter Stires

China will continue to expand its holdings and presence in the South China Sea and the first and second island chain as long as it can and does not face pressure to do otherwise.

They have an unmatche…

01:03:07 | Mon 01 Jul 2019

Episode 494: Small Boats and Daring Men: with CDR BJ Armstrong, USN

Punitive expeditions, retaliatory strikes, raiding, hitting pirate camps, attacking enemy ships in the dark of night, striking enemy facilities & resources on shore and other forms of irregular naval…

01:05:08 | Mon 24 Jun 2019

Episode 493: The fight against malaria with RADM Tim Ziemer, USN (Ret.) - Best of

Recently, when one hears of disease and Africa, if you only listened to the media, then what would come to mind would be Ebola.

That is not the real challenge in Africa. There is a disease that not on…

01:04:04 | Thu 20 Jun 2019

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