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 592: The Modernization Crunch with Hallie Coyne
After two decades of a low boil, but highly demanding series of conflicts in Asia required an extensive focus on the now - in both funding and leadership time. America finds herself facing the 2020s …
01:07:17 |
Mon 24 May 2021
Episode 591: May Day Midrats Melee!
OK, it is the day after May Day ... but that's close enough for government work.
As the entire maritime world this week decided to pick up on some Midrats favorites - poaching the Army's budget and ma…
As the entire maritime world this week decided to pick up on some Midrats favorites - poaching the Army's budget and ma…
01:06:56 |
Mon 03 May 2021
Episode 590: The Lessons of Service Squadron TEN, with Ryan Hilger
Home is thousands of miles away on the other side of the great Pacific Ocean. A deadly and relentless enemy is challenging ships and sailors for every island, cove, sea and shipping lane.
There is no …
There is no …
01:02:23 |
Mon 26 Apr 2021
Episode 589: Mid-April Melee
Sometimes, Midrats is like a VLS cell; you don't know what you have until ... wait ... bad analogy... but you get the concept.
Today for the full hour, come join us for a classic Midrats melee ... we …
Today for the full hour, come join us for a classic Midrats melee ... we …
01:15:04 |
Mon 19 Apr 2021
Episode 588: The Supply Chains that Bind Us, with Ross Kennedy
Our comfortable, modern life exists on a delicate fabric of global transportation, laws, and lines of communication supported by assumptions of stability, peace, and professional competence.
Over the…
Over the…
01:10:07 |
Mon 12 Apr 2021
Episode 587: Best of USS Neosho (AO-23),USS Sims (DD-409), & the Battle of the Coral Sea
Wars are full of accidental battles, unexpected horror, and the valor of ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.
Often lost in the sweeping stories of the Pacific in WWII, there is a story tha…
Often lost in the sweeping stories of the Pacific in WWII, there is a story tha…
01:02:09 |
Sun 11 Apr 2021
Episode 586: Focus DOD, Focus – with Thomas Spoehr
Can a military organization suffer from attention deficit disorder? There are very few moments in time – the mid-1990s was a rare one – where a nation’s national security apparatus has the luxury and…
01:01:54 |
Sun 28 Mar 2021
Episode 585: A March Madness Midrats
The Navy wants to talk some more about unmanned systems, the unknown war we have been fighting for years along the bleeding edge of Islam in Africa seems to be going nowhere we want it to go, China d…
01:09:01 |
Mon 22 Mar 2021
Episode 584: Facing Today's China, with Dean Cheng
While the rest of the world paused to focus on COVID-19 the last year, even though the pandemic started there, the People's Republic of China did not stop her long, steady push out to the world to ta…
01:02:47 |
Mon 15 Mar 2021
Episode 583: The Navalist View from Singapore, with Blake Herzinger
If geography is destiny, then Singapore is a nation of destiny.
Sitting astride one of the world's most critical chokepoints, this polyglot island republic with a population of Denmark on a spot of la…
Sitting astride one of the world's most critical chokepoints, this polyglot island republic with a population of Denmark on a spot of la…
01:02:57 |
Mon 08 Mar 2021
Episode 582: The Future of European Naval Power with Jeremy Stöhs
Where is European naval power in 2021, what is shaping it, and where is it going?
This week returning guest Jeremy Stöhs is with us to review the above issues as outlined in an exceptional report he p…
This week returning guest Jeremy Stöhs is with us to review the above issues as outlined in an exceptional report he p…
00:32:39 |
Sun 28 Feb 2021
Episode 581: Late Winter Free For All
After a week moving from the warm embrace of Valentines Day to the cold jolt of a nation wide arctic freeze, come join us this Sunday at 5pm Eastern for a live Midrats Free For All!
Open chat room, op…
Open chat room, op…
01:06:14 |
Mon 22 Feb 2021
Episode 580: Best of Andrew Jackson’s Navy; Now More Than Ever?
First aired in Feb. 2017.
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 …
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 …
00:59:12 |
Mon 22 Feb 2021
Episode 579: Military Strategy From the Classroom to the Briefing Room, with Dr. Alissio Patalano
Today we are going to discuss military strategy from the a macro level. We will cover the ways to teach military strategy to already seasoned military and civilian personnel, some of the significant …
01:11:28 |
Sun 07 Feb 2021
Episode 578: Best of the Asiatic Fleet of 1941 and its Lessons of Today
This show first aired in August 2017.
Nothing is really new, unprecedented, or that unique. If you are willing to look with the right eye, though tools may have changed, the fundamentals often remain …
Nothing is really new, unprecedented, or that unique. If you are willing to look with the right eye, though tools may have changed, the fundamentals often remain …
01:11:28 |
Fri 05 Feb 2021
Episode 577: Facing the 3rd Decade of the 21st Century, with James Holmes
New year, new decade, and a new President.
Where should be be looking to have the right view on changes to strategy and maritime power? What existing trends are getting stronger, weakening - and what …
Where should be be looking to have the right view on changes to strategy and maritime power? What existing trends are getting stronger, weakening - and what …
01:04:44 |
Mon 25 Jan 2021
Episode 576: Best of WWI and the Birth of the Modern World
Over a hundred years on, what insights can we gain from the war that started in August of 2014? What are some of the lessons we need to remember in all four levers of national power; diplomatic, info…
01:02:17 |
Mon 25 Jan 2021
Episode 575: The Navy's Problems and a Plan to Fix Them, with Bryan McGrath
There is one area of agreement among navalists, the US Navy is beset with a whole series of hard, long building problems, ignored for too long. Many, including our highest ranking uniformed leadershi…
01:03:25 |
Mon 11 Jan 2021
Episode 574: Best of 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…
00:59:36 |
Mon 11 Jan 2021
Episode 573: Best of a Navy of the Gilded Age, with Scott Mobley
The last quarter of the 19th Century, the Gilded Age, was a period of breathtaking change in society, technology, politics and industry. This rapid change helped drive the intellectual and institutio…
01:03:46 |
Mon 11 Jan 2021
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