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.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 62 minutes
- Episodes
- 566
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Episode 426: An Eye on the Fleet with Chris Cavas
With a new administration well over a year in and a clearer view of the direction our Navy is headed, now is a great opportunity to check in with one of the most knowledgeable observers on the mariti…
01:03:19 |
Sun 04 Mar 2018
Episode 423: A long, irregular, and forever war; a discussion with Dan Green
As we enter our 17th of ongoing conflict in Afghanistan and the global struggle against terrorism, why is this war taking so long? Where are we making progress, where are we stalled, and where are we…
01:00:50 |
Sun 11 Feb 2018
Episode 421: Sealift, Logistics, & MSC with Salvatore Mercogliano
It feeds, fuels, and makes everything a fleet does possible - we're talking logistics for the full hour with returning guest, Salvatore Mercogliano.
Sal sailed with MSC from 1989 to 1992, and worked M…
Sal sailed with MSC from 1989 to 1992, and worked M…
01:00:49 |
Sun 28 Jan 2018
Episode 420: Surface Readiness; History, Causes, & Cures with Kevin Eyer
After the events of the last year in WESTPAC, there is general agreement that there is something wrong with our surface force. There have always been "incidents" involving warships - including tremen…
01:06:14 |
Sun 21 Jan 2018
Episode 416: The Carrier as Capital Ship with RADM Thomas Moore, USN - Best of
First aired in Sept. 2014
How are we keeping out legacy Aircraft Carrier's in shape for the regular demands for extended deployments while at the same time bringing the new FORD Class CVN online?
What …
How are we keeping out legacy Aircraft Carrier's in shape for the regular demands for extended deployments while at the same time bringing the new FORD Class CVN online?
What …
01:00:24 |
Sun 24 Dec 2017
Episode 415: 2017 Review ... and 2018 Preview
Join CDR Salamander and EagleOne as they wrap up Year-7 of Midrats with an end of the year review.
From WestPac to the former Caliphate; South China Sea to Sub-Saharan Africa; from LCS to our new SSN …
From WestPac to the former Caliphate; South China Sea to Sub-Saharan Africa; from LCS to our new SSN …
01:10:47 |
Sun 17 Dec 2017
Episode 414: Best of Anti-Access Area-Denial (A2AD) with Sam Tangredi
Power projection, sea control, access denial, and the ability to impose your will on the enemy from the sea; or depending on your perspective, prevent them from doing the same.
If the comparative adva…
If the comparative adva…
01:10:50 |
Sun 10 Dec 2017
Episode 413: Global Naval Power at the End of the 2nd Decade of the 21st Century
Take a moment to get away from your shock that it is already December, and let it soak in that it will be 2018 in less than a month.
That means that we are officially well in to the end of the second …
That means that we are officially well in to the end of the second …
01:03:40 |
Sun 03 Dec 2017
Episode 411: Making a Better War College
What is the best way to hone the intellectual edge of the officers who will lead our Navy? How do we gather our best minds and ideas together to best prepare our Navy for the next war?
How is our cons…
How is our cons…
01:04:43 |
Sun 19 Nov 2017
Episode 410: Encore Interview with Captain Thomas J. Hudner, Jr., USN (Ret)
In the early years of the show, we had the opportunity to inverview Captain Hudner, who just passed.
His is a holder of the Medal of Honor from the Korean War. With him is the author of Such Men as Th…
His is a holder of the Medal of Honor from the Korean War. With him is the author of Such Men as Th…
01:00:13 |
Sun 12 Nov 2017
Episode 409: USS FITZGERALD & MCCAIN Collisions; Observations with Bryan McGrath
This week saw the release of the reports on the collision reports and Comprehensive Review of the incidents this summer between merchant ships in WESTPAC and the destroyers USS FITZGERALD and USS MCC…
01:05:13 |
Sun 05 Nov 2017
Episode 408: NavyCon: Science Fiction's Important Role in National Security
This Sunday we're going to convince you to make plans to be in Annapolis next month.
Coming up Saturday, Nov. 18, from 12 - 5 p.m. Eastern, our friend Claude Berube is husbanding the Naval Academy Mus…
Coming up Saturday, Nov. 18, from 12 - 5 p.m. Eastern, our friend Claude Berube is husbanding the Naval Academy Mus…
01:07:01 |
Sun 29 Oct 2017
Episode 406: America's First General Staff, with John Kuehn.
The General Board of the Navy existed for the first half of the 20th Century. In his latest book, America's First General Staff: A Short History of the Rise and Fall of the General Board of the U.S. …
01:05:26 |
Sun 15 Oct 2017
Episode 405: Best of Then VADM Moran on Personnel Policy & Leadership
As now VCNO Moran might say, this week we return to datum to an interview from bit more than three years ago when Admiral Moran, USN was Chief of Naval Personnel.
We looked at the question of how does…
We looked at the question of how does…
01:01:09 |
Sun 08 Oct 2017
Episode 404: Best of Clausewitz with Donald Stoker
He is quoted often, correctly and incorrectly, but few have actually read his works in full - and even fewer know much about the man himself, Major General Carl von Clausewitz, Kingdom of Prussia.
Out…
Out…
01:00:51 |
Sun 01 Oct 2017
Episode 403: Hezbollah, Israel, Syria, Lebanon and What's Next
As the Syrian conflict enters what looks to be its end game, one old player on the scene is emerging stronger than it has ever been, a point of concern for all the nations in the area.
How has the Syr…
How has the Syr…
01:01:56 |
Sun 24 Sep 2017
Episode 402: Mid-September Melee
From WESTPAC to the Caribbean to the Euphrates river valley to Arakan province, we’ll be covering the mostly maritime national security developments of the last few weeks for the full hour in a Midra…
01:04:06 |
Sun 17 Sep 2017
Episode 401: Reporting on a Navy in Crisis, With David Larter
In an era of the 24-hr news cycle but in a subject area where accuracy and subject-knowledge is required - how does the navy-focused media report on the fast changing environment?
For the professional…
For the professional…
00:51:26 |
Sun 10 Sep 2017
Episode 400: Best of Red Flag and the Development of USAF Fighter Pilots
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…
Moving beyond the technic…
01:00:40 |
Sun 03 Sep 2017
Episode 399: The Asiatic Fleet of 1941 and its Lessons of Today
Nothing is really new, unprecedented, or that unique. If you are willing to look with the right eye, though tools may have changed, the fundamentals often remain the same.
In the opening months of WWI…
In the opening months of WWI…
01:04:41 |
Sun 27 Aug 2017
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