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 632: The High Ground in the Western Pacific, with Bryan Clark
All it takes is a quick look at a map or a quick read of history to understand that any conflict in the Western Pacific will be dominated by naval forces, logistics, control of the air, and the abili…
01:02:24 |
Mon 15 Aug 2022
Episode 631: China’s Decade to Win
Speaker Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan managed to bring the national security eyeballs back to the Western Pacific after half a year in Eastern Europe.
The People’s Republic of China has not been distracted…
The People’s Republic of China has not been distracted…
01:05:08 |
Sun 07 Aug 2022
Episode 630: July Farewell Maritime Free For All
The Russian Navy HQ in Crimea had a Sunday visitor, China continues to be prickly about its neighbor's guest list, the Navy gets a new oiler (yes, that is sexy), Sal wrote a couple of things that got…
01:06:54 |
Mon 01 Aug 2022
Episode 629: Making a Great Maritime Partnership Better, with Emma Salisbury
The Royal Navy and the United States Navy share a common heritage, and in the last century built one of the greatest maritime security partnerships over a longer period than any other pair of nations…
01:02:40 |
Mon 25 Jul 2022
Episode 628: Mid-Summer Melee
From Snake Island to the San Diego waterfront, from DC to the Baltic Sea - if there's a maritime issue worth considering, we'll try to pack it in for the hour this Sunday.
As with the normal Melee for…
As with the normal Melee for…
01:02:56 |
Sun 17 Jul 2022
Episode 627: America's Maritime Disinterest, with Jimmy Drennan
Few navalists can look around them and feel content that their peers, government, and the American people understand - or for that matter seem to care - that our nation's wealth, health, and security…
01:04:44 |
Mon 11 Jul 2022
Episode 626: Turning the Tables on China with Brent Sadler
While everyone is distracted by the Russo-Ukrainian War, the People’s Republic of China continues to work to solidify her ability to control the South China Sea and to bring more nations in to her or…
01:03:16 |
Mon 27 Jun 2022
Episode 625: Combined Amphibious Operations in the Indo-Pacific
Along the spectrum from peacetime exercises to wartime combined operations, successfully integrating multinational forces is not a pick-up game. To do it right requires leaders and institutions years…
01:03:24 |
Tue 07 Jun 2022
Episode 624: Larter, Returning ... You Never Get the Sea out of Your Blood
If you've missed having David Larter on the Navy beat, well you're in for a treat.
Though everyone's favorite former OS2 is no longer a defense journalist, like most Sailors, he doesn't leave his love…
Though everyone's favorite former OS2 is no longer a defense journalist, like most Sailors, he doesn't leave his love…
01:07:13 |
Mon 23 May 2022
Episode 623: the USN's Port Arthur Problem - with Matthew Hipple
What do the numbers tell us about the USN's expected fleet during the rest of what we call the Terrible 20s?
We are going to spend an hour digging in to that with returning guest Matthew Hipple, acti…
We are going to spend an hour digging in to that with returning guest Matthew Hipple, acti…
01:07:16 |
Sun 15 May 2022
Episode 622: China’s Assassin’s Mace in WESTPAC w/Gerry Doyle & Blake Herzinger
Since the March 1996 humiliation in the waters around Taiwan handed to the People’s Republic of China by the US Navy’s world-dominating Carrier Battle Groups – as they were then known – China and her…
01:04:02 |
Mon 25 Apr 2022
Episode 621: Russian Military SITREP with Dr. Dmitry Gorenburg
For over 11-years, once a year or so today’s guest has joined us on Midrats to discuss the latest military and national security developments with Russia.
With the war waging in Ukraine and in the pro…
With the war waging in Ukraine and in the pro…
01:00:38 |
Mon 11 Apr 2022
Episode 620: War, Pestilence, and Famine - the World's Logistics Falters
If it's April, it's time for a return visit by Ross Kennedy to Midrats!
A little under a year ago, we had Ross on to discuss the impact of COVID and related structural issues to the global supply chai…
A little under a year ago, we had Ross on to discuss the impact of COVID and related structural issues to the global supply chai…
01:04:32 |
Mon 04 Apr 2022
Episode 619: Mid -March Midrats Melee
With the Russo-Ukrainian War in its 3rd week, everyone is starting to see a new normal emerging in Europe, our alliances, and global posture. What are the assumptions time has left behind, what conce…
01:16:52 |
Mon 14 Mar 2022
Episode 618: China's 2022 with Dean Cheng
While the world's eyes are focused on Russia and Ukraine - and probably will for the foreseeable future - the People's Republic of China is not standing still.
How can China use this moment to her a…
How can China use this moment to her a…
01:03:08 |
Mon 07 Mar 2022
Episode 617: Russo-Ukrainian War Black Sea SITREP
From the Sea of Azov to the Danube Delta, the maritime component of the Russian invasion of Ukraine's is bringing to the front universal constants; treaties, neutral shipping, amphibious operations, …
01:11:29 |
Mon 28 Feb 2022
Episode 616: First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11
As described on Amazon, "Eight CIA officers are dropped into the mountains of northern Afghanistan on October 17, 2001. They are Team Alpha, an eclectic band of linguists, tribal experts, and elite w…
01:05:23 |
Sun 13 Feb 2022
Episode 615: Gaming Out WWIII with Michael Cee
Decades of peace and relative stability in Europe is suddenly shattered as armies start to mobilize on a scale not seen since WWII.
No, not 2022...but 1987.
What is there to learn for today from what …
No, not 2022...but 1987.
What is there to learn for today from what …
01:02:46 |
Mon 07 Feb 2022
Episode 614: Big Navy vs. Reconnaissance & Strike-Capable Drones
We live in an era where in the blink of an eye we've gone from flip-phones to smart phones with the capabilities of both supercomputers a generation ago and entire movie studios in your back pocket. …
01:03:43 |
Mon 24 Jan 2022
Episode 613: The Afghanistan Papers, with Craig Whitlock
Five presidents from both political parties oversaw the two decade debacle in Afghanistan that ended in the national humiliation at the end of August 2021 at the airport in Kabul where we retreated u…
01:03:34 |
Mon 17 Jan 2022
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