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 378: China & the Challenge in the Cyber Domain
You hear a bit on the edges about China's cyber forces' ongoing efforts to penetrate the cyber domain in order to get an edge against the USA and other nations she sees as either being in the way of …
01:04:20 |
Sun 02 Apr 2017
Episode 377: Too Many SWOs at Sea?
When is there ever too much of a good thing? Is our officer manning policy in the Surface Warfare Community resulting in too many JOs chasing too few hours of experience actually performing one of th…
01:02:04 |
Sun 26 Mar 2017
Episode 376: WESTPAC's Progress with Toshi Yosihara
While a new American President, Russia, and ongoing operations against the Islamic State continue to absorb attention, the Western Pacific from Japan, Korea, China, to Australia continues forward.
Our…
Our…
01:04:15 |
Sun 19 Mar 2017
Episode 375: Strategic Discipline & the Building of a New National Strategy
We are in the second month of a new President who is building a new national security team. He and his team come to their positions with a very different view of the world and America's place in it t…
01:03:38 |
Sun 12 Mar 2017
Episode 374: The American Military in WWI, Best of
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…
01:09:29 |
Sun 05 Mar 2017
Episode 373: End of February Free For All
Is your head swimming in the 2nd month of the Trump Administration? While we are distracted with intramural politics, the world keeps moving and other nations move forward.
How are the national securi…
How are the national securi…
01:06:10 |
Sun 26 Feb 2017
Episode 372: Andrew Jackson’s Navy; Now More Than Ever?
Since his election in November, the administration and several articles have suggested Donald Trump is a new Andrew Jackson whose portrait now hangs in the Oval Office. What might that mean for the N…
01:02:01 |
Sun 19 Feb 2017
Episode 371: Rice Bowls, Silos, & Firewalls - the National Security Bureaucracy
For the first time in eight years, we are watching a new team take over the national security infrastructure. Now is a good time to review, "Who is who in the zoo" and what exactly they do.
In the al…
In the al…
01:00:46 |
Sun 12 Feb 2017
Episode 370: The SECNAV's In Basket With James Holmes
There will be no rest for the next Secretary of the Navy. He will need to lead his Navy and Marine Corps as they continue to engage in the Long War against expansionist Islamic extremism, while at th…
01:04:57 |
Sun 05 Feb 2017
Episode 369: The Future of America's Military at Risk, with Bob Scales
To meet the national security requirements of our republic in the years to come, what direction and emphasis do we need for our military? What are the false horizons we need to watch out for, and wha…
01:04:14 |
Sun 29 Jan 2017
Episode 368: Best of Barney Rubel on Small Ships, Flotillas & Naval Supremacy
For a maritime power with global requirements, what is the role of the small ship in times of peace and war?
What are the tradeoffs between quantity and capability, size and range, survivability and a…
What are the tradeoffs between quantity and capability, size and range, survivability and a…
01:03:57 |
Sat 21 Jan 2017
Episode 367: Best of USMC Force RECON with Alexander Martin
From a show we did 5 years ago, time to bring it back.
Much of the conversation about the USMC over the last decade has been about its "Second Land Army" status .... well .... Marines are still second…
Much of the conversation about the USMC over the last decade has been about its "Second Land Army" status .... well .... Marines are still second…
01:00:51 |
Sun 15 Jan 2017
Episode 366: Is it Time for a General Staff?
The 1980s might be getting some of its foreign policy back - but why is our entire defense framework in the second-half of the second decade of the 21st Century based around ideas forged when the Chr…
01:02:17 |
Sun 08 Jan 2017
Episode 365: Best of Sea Swap & Small Unit Leadership
While good ideas are often forgotten, bad ideas seem to pop up over an over again - especially the sexy ones that sound so good, but never seem to work well. The answer, of course, is to try again an…
01:02:22 |
Sun 01 Jan 2017
Episode 364: Best of Stephen Phillips and The Recipient's Son
Today, we return to a show from four years ago with author Stephen Phillips.
Steve is a 1992 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He began his naval career as a surface warfare officer on board USS Har…
Steve is a 1992 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. He began his naval career as a surface warfare officer on board USS Har…
00:28:01 |
Sun 25 Dec 2016
Episode 363: The South African Border War and its Lessons, with LT Jack McCain
If you define the Cold War as lasting 44 years from 1947 to 1991, then for over half the Cold War there was a simmering proxy war in southern Africa that involved, to one extent or another, the prese…
01:04:16 |
Sun 18 Dec 2016
Episode 362: Towards a 350 Ship Navy, with Jerry Hendrix
Even before the election, President-elect Trump mentioned he wanted to get to a 350 ship Navy. The outgoing Secretary of the Navy has put us on a path to 308, and in his waning months is fighting a h…
01:04:02 |
Sun 11 Dec 2016
Episode 361: Where Youth and Laughter Go; With "The Cutting Edge" in Afghanistan
For the full hour this Sunday our guest will be Lieutenant Colonel Seth W. B. Folsom, USMC the author of Where Youth and Laughter Go. Described by USNI Books:
It is the culminating chapter of a trilog…
It is the culminating chapter of a trilog…
01:04:45 |
Sun 04 Dec 2016
Episode 360: Best of IA, E-2, FEF, EDU & the 21C Career Path w/CAPT Herb Carmen
What does an officer do with the opportunistic "white space" the Navy can provide you in your career path?
What does a curious intellect and an operational mindset need to look at doing to meet both?
W…
What does a curious intellect and an operational mindset need to look at doing to meet both?
W…
01:02:01 |
Sun 27 Nov 2016
Episode 359: A Foreign Policy Short List for the New CINC, with Mackenzie Eaglen
Old foreign and defense challenges return, new ones emerge, and existing ones morph in to something slightly different. The only thing that is constant is that there is no opportunity for a learning …
01:02:19 |
Sun 20 Nov 2016
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