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 612: Jackson's Navy, with Claude Berube
We're going to kick off our Midrats' 13th year with someone who has been with us from the start, best friend to the show Dr. Claude Berube!
If you care about American history in general, and US Navy h…
If you care about American history in general, and US Navy h…
01:06:45 |
Sun 09 Jan 2022
Episode 611: Making the Case for Maritime Power with ADM Jamie Foggo, USN (Ret.)
Just a cursory glance at any map will tell you the United States of America is a maritime nation whose economic power and national security is intimately linked to the sea.
This simple reality is not …
This simple reality is not …
01:21:45 |
Mon 13 Dec 2021
Episode 610: Presence & Command of the Sea, with Robert “Barney” Rubel, CAPT USN (Ret.)
Both history and common practice show that the most fundamental role of a major power’s naval forces is to “show the flag.” The world’s premier naval power has additional responsibilities if it wishe…
00:59:48 |
Sun 05 Dec 2021
Episode 609: The Fat Leonard Podcast with Tom Wright
If you are even remotely connected to the US Navy you have directly or indirectly been impacted by the "Fat Leonard" scandal.
A husbanding agent who used every tool in a very old book - greed, sex, p…
A husbanding agent who used every tool in a very old book - greed, sex, p…
01:06:02 |
Mon 22 Nov 2021
Episode 608: Time for a Maritime Department?
All you need to do is look at a map to tell that we are a maritime nation. A strong Navy is only part of being a maritime power. As everyone is starting to appreciate as they look at empty shelves, r…
01:07:48 |
Mon 15 Nov 2021
Episode 607: The NATO Training Mission in Afghanistan - Hopes & Lessons
In what history will show was a failed effort, for almost two decades, the most advanced military and police forces in the West tried to build a security force for the people of Afghanistan, an effor…
01:03:12 |
Mon 08 Nov 2021
Episode 606: China's Dangerous Decade with Andrew Erickson
What are the of economic, demographic, and political forces driving China through this decade?
What direction is her growth heading and where will she find herself at the end of the decade?
Are the fo…
What direction is her growth heading and where will she find herself at the end of the decade?
Are the fo…
01:06:04 |
Mon 25 Oct 2021
Episode 605: the Navy in Afghanistan at Flood Tide: PRT Khost
Afghanistan is a land locked nation, but in the USA’s two-decade presence in that country, her Navy was there from the beginning to end serving along with her sister services.
Many are familiar with t…
Many are familiar with t…
01:06:09 |
Mon 18 Oct 2021
Episode 604: October Natsec Free-For-All
From the fleet parked off Long Beach, to the already forgotten Afghanistan, to the particular aspirational desires of the latest 30-year Shipbuilding Plan - and whatever else comes across then quarte…
01:07:34 |
Mon 11 Oct 2021
Episode 603: September Maritime Melee
Sal and EagleOne are tanned, rested, and ready to dive in a … well … where does one start for the last couple of weeks.
Australia pivots strong to China with here plans to move to SSN, France gets gru…
Australia pivots strong to China with here plans to move to SSN, France gets gru…
01:14:32 |
Mon 20 Sep 2021
Episode 602: The US Navy's Unmanned Programs, with CAPT Captain Pete Small, USN
While a lot of the attention in unmanned systems the last two decades has been in the air, significant developments on and under the surface of the oceans were happening in parallel.
From small mine h…
From small mine h…
01:08:12 |
Mon 30 Aug 2021
Episode 601: All Roads Lead to Kabul
I’m not sure where today’s Midrats will take us. Our co-host is getting a little underway time, so this will be just you and me.
As the initial stage of the collapse of Kabul unfolded last weekend, a …
As the initial stage of the collapse of Kabul unfolded last weekend, a …
01:19:50 |
Sun 22 Aug 2021
Episode 600: Shipping in the time of COVID
Shipping rates, supply bottlenecks, and some nightmare abandonment stories for some mariners, like everything else on our water plant, COVID-19 impacted our shipping industry hard at sea and ashore. …
01:03:34 |
Sun 08 Aug 2021
Episode 599: American Generalship in the Long War, with Gray Connolly
For coming up on two decades, the United States military has been engaged - if you want to call it by the medal they give everyone for it - a Global War on Terrorism.
As we have invested two decades, …
As we have invested two decades, …
01:11:42 |
Sun 01 Aug 2021
Episode 598: Maritime Melee!
Tired of hearing "DELTA" related to COVID, when in a good and just world when you heard that word it would be used to talk about old Russian Soviet Era SSBN or 2-seater all weather F-18s?
Well, we're …
Well, we're …
01:09:12 |
Mon 26 Jul 2021
Episode 597: Ukraine & the Eastern Black Sea with CAPT Chris Rawley, USNR
If it is early summer in the Black Sea, it is time for the annual Ukrainian hosted international exercise Sea Breeze.
Why is this exercise important, who came along, and what does it tell us about the…
Why is this exercise important, who came along, and what does it tell us about the…
00:58:42 |
Sun 18 Jul 2021
Episode 596: Mid-Summer SITREP
Sal and EagleOne are back after July 4th with a full plate of catching up to do on the waterfront from ghosting Afghanistan, Japan & Taiwan's awkward natsec flirting, the INDOPACCOM J2 isn't all that…
00:54:33 |
Mon 12 Jul 2021
Episode 595: Pre-July 4th Melee
One week prior to the July 4th holiday, and it's time to catch up on the latest events in the maritime security arena ... and an arena it is.
We have a new SECNAV nom ... but no one is talking about i…
We have a new SECNAV nom ... but no one is talking about i…
01:08:39 |
Mon 28 Jun 2021
Episode 594: Small Islands in Great Power Competition, with Alexander Gray
China is interested in a lot more than just the first or second island chain. In the vast reaches of the Pacific Ocean, the islands of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia are critical to the sea lin…
01:00:06 |
Sun 13 Jun 2021
Episode 593: More Patrol Craft, Not Fewer with LCDR Jordan Bradford, USN
In a sharp departure from the ideas that brought them to the fleet, the Navy, "...appears poised to sunset the MK VI and Cyclone-class patrol craft programs in rapid succession, with no replacements …
01:04:24 |
Mon 07 Jun 2021
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