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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 197: 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…

01:03:15 | Sun 13 Oct 2013

Episode 196: RDML Kirby, USN, CHINFO

From long-term issues like sequester, the strategic review, the QDR, to bolt-from-the-blue incidents like the murders at the Navy yard - how does the Navy communicate to the public and the press in a…

01:03:43 | Sun 06 Oct 2013

Episode 195: The Pacific Pivot Ground Element

What is the role of ground forces as the conversation revolves around the Air Sea Battle Concept?
Is an emphasis on air and sea power sending the right message, driving balanced thinking, and sending…

01:01:09 | Sun 29 Sep 2013

Episode 194: DD214, Unpacked Boxes & the road ahead

When a few years turns in to many. When all of a sudden you seem to be the oldest guy in the room. When you have but days of memories of your kids and in the blink of an eye they are a year older - e…

01:06:05 | Sun 22 Sep 2013

Episode 193: Best of VADM Miller & Victor Davis Hanson

This episode from 2011 came up three times this week, so it is a natural for a Best of.
How do you intellectually prepare combat leaders? If you are given a young man or woman at 18, how do you best…

01:03:19 | Sun 15 Sep 2013

Episode 192: No, I Won't Shut-up and Color

Is there such a thing as Military Intellectual Entrepreneurialism?
Large, sated, and complacent organization do not have a good track record of survival. Organizations of any size that nurture the me…

01:08:19 | Sun 08 Sep 2013

Episode 191: Lawfare, Long War & Labor Day Best of

We're going to go back a couple of years this weekend to our Lawfare episode from 2011. We'll be back live next week.

Never in our history have we fought a war where law, lawyers, and layers of lega…

01:00:01 | Sun 01 Sep 2013

Episode 190: Crowdsourcing the Admin Overhead

If the CNO's #1 priority is warfighting, how do leaders focus on that priority inside a 24-hr day?
In a complicated structure of Administrative and Operational Chains of Command and the unending hung…

01:12:13 | Sun 25 Aug 2013

Episode 189: The Union and Confederate Navies

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…

01:02:14 | Sun 18 Aug 2013

Episode 188: Best of Offshore Balancing With TX Hammes

Interesting idea recycle, and in the last couple of weeks, the subject of our DEC 2012 show has been making the rounds again.
What got it all started was his article almost a year ago in the United S…

00:45:23 | Sun 11 Aug 2013

Episode 187: From I to C of the BRIC with Toshi Yoshihara

Remember when "Afghanistan" became "AFPAC" in the second half of the last decade? Concepts morph the more you study them.
Just as you started to get used to the 'Pacific Pivot" - in case you missed i…

01:10:45 | Sun 04 Aug 2013

Episode 186: Best of The Korean War

We ran this as a best of back in December, but with yesterday being the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice, there is no question this is the right episode.

Also, with the last year's annou…

00:59:05 | Sun 28 Jul 2013

Episode 185: Getting "Next" Right with John Nagl

So, which is it? Do we forget our history and are therefor doomed to repeat it, or are we always preparing to fight the next war?
As we finish up the final chapter of our participation in Afghanistan…

01:02:47 | Sun 21 Jul 2013

Episode 184: The Big Man Theory

What is the impact of the right man at the right time with the right ideas? What is the impact of what seems to some as just a man, but to a son is all?
For the first half of the hour we will have LC…

01:02:39 | Sun 14 Jul 2013

Episode 183: Best of the Authors

Don't hate - but we're at the beach.
We'll be back next week live, but until then - today's show is a pre-recorded best of with three of the authors we interviewed in 2010 about their books; James S.…

01:14:45 | Sun 07 Jul 2013

Episode 182: Marine Recon Best Of

I cannot believe it has been almost 2.5 years since this show. Unquestionably time to have it again.
Much of the conversation about the USMC over the last decade has been about its "Second Land Army"…

00:59:52 | Sun 30 Jun 2013

Episode 181: Summer Solstice Melee

Here is your chance; its the end of 2QCY13 and you haven't heard the topic you wanted on Midrats yet?
There is a question you would like to hear the hosts grapple with about maritime and national sec…

01:03:53 | Sun 23 Jun 2013

Episode 180: Russia for Father's Day

Father's Day Best of from almost a year ago. Can't believe we have waited a year since we talked about Russia ... so with Syria in the news - it might be interesting to see what the view was a year a…

01:01:07 | Sun 16 Jun 2013

Episode 179: CIMSEC and the Marketplace of Ideas

Policy is never set - it is never agreed. As the global maritime security situation changes, so must the ideas and plans of nations.
In the best Western tradition, it is generally accepted that more …

01:02:43 | Sun 09 Jun 2013

Episode 178: USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS: Operation PRAYING MANTIS

Narrow seas, unseen mines, punitive expeditions, and "come as you are" ASUW on the sea and in the air.
Yes, it has been a quarter-century, but little has changed since the USS SAMUEL B. ROBERTS (FFG-…

01:12:20 | Sun 02 Jun 2013

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