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 218: Abolishing of the USAF, with Robert M. Farley
In concept, execution, and ability to effectively provide its part of the national defense infrastructure, has a separate Air Force served this nation well, and does it make sense to keep it a separa…
01:00:39 |
Sun 09 Mar 2014
Episode 217: Best of the Journalist at War
Revisiting a show from NOV 2011,
They share the hazards, smell the smells; all that is needed so that those at home may understand what their countrymen are doing in the far reaches of the world on t…
They share the hazards, smell the smells; all that is needed so that those at home may understand what their countrymen are doing in the far reaches of the world on t…
01:59:05 |
Sun 02 Mar 2014
Episode 216: Maritime Strategy and Control of the Seas with Seth Cropsey
What direction do we need to go for our next maritime strategy? Using he recent article, Control of the Seas, as our starting point, our guest for the full hour will be Seth Cropsey, Senior Fellow an…
01:02:50 |
Sun 23 Feb 2014
Episode 215: February Free For All
Nothing like some time snowed in to focus the mind.
Join us this Sunday from 5-6pm as we cover the maritime angle from China to shipbuilding to Cyber with a Midrats free for all.
Have a topic you wishe…
Join us this Sunday from 5-6pm as we cover the maritime angle from China to shipbuilding to Cyber with a Midrats free for all.
Have a topic you wishe…
01:06:16 |
Sun 16 Feb 2014
Episode 214: Best of the Hill Staffer
When you send your elected representative to Washington DC, you are not just sending one person. For each Congressman and Senator - there is a cadre of staffers that makes it happen. Bills do not spr…
01:00:05 |
Sun 09 Feb 2014
Episode 213: Best of Skippy-San on Japan, and Bob Taylor's 13XX
For those who don't care about Football or get all grumpy if they don't get enough of their Midrats, we're heading back to early in our second year and visit our old friend.
In the small world of the…
In the small world of the…
00:59:18 |
Sun 02 Feb 2014
Episode 212: NATO in Afghanistan with Stephen M. Saideman
Lost to many whose news sources in the USA consists of the major newspapers and the standard networks, for most of the last dozen+ years, the conflict in Afghanistan has not been a USA-Centric battle…
01:01:41 |
Sun 26 Jan 2014
Episode 211: 4th Anniversary Free For All
That's right ... Midrats has been on the air four years. This week we aren't having guests, just the two hosts and any listeners who want to take the opportunity to call in or throw a question or top…
01:01:35 |
Sun 19 Jan 2014
Episode 210: John Kuehn & Joint Operations from Cape Fear to the South China Sea
Though nations for thousands of years have been wrestling with the challenge of Joint operations, we're still trying to get it right.
As an island nation with significant global interests ashore, the…
As an island nation with significant global interests ashore, the…
01:05:20 |
Sun 12 Jan 2014
Episode 209: Kenya and East Africa with Alexander Martin
Many continue to focus on the "Pacific Pivot" and/or IndoPac, but the news seems to keep finding its way back to Africa.
This Sunday we're going to leave IndoPac and all that in order to focus the ful…
This Sunday we're going to leave IndoPac and all that in order to focus the ful…
01:02:25 |
Sun 05 Jan 2014
Episode 208: Best of the General Board
Though over three years old, this topic remains at the top of the list of importance and if you are a new listener to Midrats and haven't listened to it yet - this is required listening.
If you caught…
If you caught…
00:57:47 |
Sun 29 Dec 2013
Episode 206: Small Ships, Flotillas & the Requirements of 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…
01:05:01 |
Sun 15 Dec 2013
Episode 205: A 21st Century Navy With John C. Harvey, Jr, ADM USN (Ret)
In less than a month we will be firmly in the middle of the 2nd decade of the 21st Century. What path were we put on at the start 21st Century that got us here? How do we evaluate the right decisions…
01:08:40 |
Sun 08 Dec 2013
Episode 204: A Day Without Seapower - Best of
Almost two and a half years ago we had a show that is a fitting ago now as it was then.
Almost a decade of involvement in two land wars in Asia combined with a series of costly and ill timed shipbui…
Almost a decade of involvement in two land wars in Asia combined with a series of costly and ill timed shipbui…
00:59:54 |
Sun 01 Dec 2013
Episode 203: Bob Work and Global Maritime Power
When one hangs up the uniform after decades of service, but still wants to contribute to their nations national security needs, what paths can that take? How does one find a path forward, and what ar…
01:05:53 |
Sun 24 Nov 2013
Episode 202: Lessons from the Hanoi Hilton
Are there lessons one can learn from the most exceptional edges of the military experience that can be useful to the civilian world?
Was there something from the experience of American prisoners of w…
Was there something from the experience of American prisoners of w…
01:01:39 |
Sun 17 Nov 2013
Episode 201: The 911 Decade Best Of
Going back 14 months, this Veterans Day weekend, let's review the war we have been soaking in.
There are certain points in a nation's history that define a transition from one era to another. These …
There are certain points in a nation's history that define a transition from one era to another. These …
01:30:09 |
Sun 10 Nov 2013
Episode 200: Navy SEALs in the Long War
In an arch that spans the immediate post-Cold War era through the Iraq War, what are the observations & lessons a front-line leader at the tactical level and, for those who are injured in service to …
01:02:02 |
Sun 03 Nov 2013
Episode 199: Best of Budget Choices
If you have only started to think about the budget problems this year, you are late to the game Shipmate. We are years in to it, and almost 2-yrs ago, as many were sobering up to the fact that the mi…
01:00:03 |
Sun 27 Oct 2013
Episode 198: Best of the Darkhorse Battalion
This week, we'll go back to 2011 for an interview with one of the better reports from an embed this decade. For those who listened to All Things Considered on NPR in 2011, you caught an outstanding s…
01:00:08 |
Sun 20 Oct 2013
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