Midrats

Episode 492: Making a Better Army Staff Officer, with COL Kirk Dorr, USA

How does our Army help officers understand military doctrine, history, and theory? How do we ensure that our staffs have leaders capable of generating options for commanders engaged with our most com…

01:05:51 | Wed 12 Jun 2019

Episode 491: Early Summer Melee

He’s back! EagleOne is back in the studio to help us kick of summer with a Midrats early-summer melee!

With most schools out, what you need right now is a good maritime hour to refocus the brain.

For t…

01:06:29 | Thu 06 Jun 2019

Episode 490: Best of Fisheries as a Strategic Maritime Resource

Today's Midrats Best of first aired on August 2016.

We live in a crowded world with limited resources. What happens when this meets modern technology's ability to shorten the time/distance equation an…

01:04:04 | Tue 04 Jun 2019

Episode 489: US Merchant Marine - Not Ready for War, with gCaptain's John Konrad

What if they gave a war in WESTPAC and we couldn't come?

It is easy to talk tactics, weapons, and warship numbers - but on balance, that is not what ensures victory in any major war.

For a maritime na…

01:09:29 | Mon 20 May 2019

Episode 488: Best of The Outlaw Ocean with Ian Urbina

Stowaways, poaching, piracy, smuggling, and murder - the global commons of the open ocean is as wild of a place as it is vast.

Using as a baseline his series on lawlessness on the high seas in the New…

01:02:45 | Mon 20 May 2019

Episode 487: Taiwan and the Challenge of Modern Strategic Defensive Posture

What is a good strategy and posture for Taiwan to take for her defense? Are there things she can learn from Japan?

What is Taiwan’s posture today towards mainland China, and where are trends taking he…

01:08:08 | Mon 06 May 2019

Episode 486: Waiting on a National Strategy with Dr. David Gioe

Do we have the means, capabilities, national will - and more important - the support of the American people to meet the demands from the global entanglements we are obligated by?

What is the grand st…

01:07:24 | Thu 02 May 2019

Episode 485: Best of the American Military in WWI

Well inside an officer's career arch, we saw the American Navy move from the Great White Fleet, The Spanish American War to the age of the Dreadnought. Our Army, from ad-hoc volunteer units to a prof…

01:07:50 | Thu 02 May 2019

Episode 484: Best of Strategic Discipline & the Building of a New National Strategy

Time to look back at an episode at the dawn of the Trump Administration. Our guest back in March of 2017 was Frank Hoffman.

At the second month of a new President is building a new national security t…

01:00:44 | Sun 28 Apr 2019

Episode 483: Quō Vādis, USNR?

Almost everyone who follows military issues can clearly point to what the Army Reserve, National Guard, USAFR, ANG, and USMC Reserves do – their individual and unit deployments have been highly visib…

01:05:01 | Tue 09 Apr 2019

Episode 482: Who Will Run the Navy of the 2020s?

The generation that will lead Sailors forward over what is shaping up to be the most challenging environment at sea for the USN since the 1980s is just now rolling in to their first shore duty or out…

01:04:44 | Mon 01 Apr 2019

Episode 481: Best of USS Neosho (AO-23),USS Sims (DD-409), & the Battle of the Coral Sea

Wars are full of accidental battles, unexpected horror, and the valor of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.

Often lost in the sweeping stories of the Pacific in WWII, there is a story tha…

01:00:38 | Mon 01 Apr 2019

Episode 480: Best of The Battle of Jutland & the Time of the Battleship with Rob Farley

When this show first aired in May of 2016, we were coming up on the 100-year anniversary of the Battle of Jutland. Stop for a moment, close your eyes, and then tell me what image comes to mind.

If …

01:02:20 | Mon 01 Apr 2019

Episode 479: One Nation Under Drones, with John Jackson

How are unmanned systems and the increasing use of robots from the kitchen to the battlefield impacting how our personal, professional, and national lives are being run?

What are the obvious and not s…

01:01:59 | Mon 11 Mar 2019

Episode 478: "Five Ocean Navy Strategy" with Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) & Dr. Jerry Hendrix

During the 2016 election, then candidate Donald Trump ran on building a 350 ship Navy. That number soon moved up to 355.

Two years after his inauguration, the path to get there is hard to see.

There …

00:30:04 | Sun 03 Mar 2019

Episode 477: Afghanistan & the Long War with Bill Roggio

We are going to take a clear, cold, and unsparing look at the status of the conflict in Afghanistan and the Long War in general with our returning guest, Bill Roggio.

In a far-reaching discussion, we …

00:52:45 | Sun 24 Feb 2019

Episode 476: August Cole & P.W. Singer's Ghost Fleet, Best of

The best fiction doesn't just entertain, it informs and causes the reader to think.

Our guest for the full hour this Sunday from 5-6pm Eastern is August Cole, the co-author with P.W. Singer of one of …

01:03:17 | Sun 24 Feb 2019

Episode 475: The US Navy's Face Mission; Naval Presence - History & Present Use

From showing the flag in the Mediterranean in the first decades of our republic's history, through Teddy's Great White Fleet, to FONOPS in today's South China Sea - "being there" is a little understo…

01:02:05 | Sun 10 Feb 2019

Episode 474: Outlaw Ocean Best of