When we started Midrats, President Obama hadn't even been President for a year, I only left active duty 4-months ago, Russia was mostly forgotten about except for Secretary of State Clinton famous "Reset/Overload," anyone worried about China was considered an alarmist, and no one really knew what a "podcast" was except for a very small group of to-online weirdos.
One day our friend Claude Berube convinced the two of us and the late Raymond Pritchett that people might be interested in hearing us chat about those things that we find interesting.
That was 13-years ago - and Midrats is still going strong.
Come join us for the full hour Sunday from 5-6pm Eastern as we take a quick review of the status on the conversation in the national security arena, the big lessons of 2022, and what we plan on keeping an eye on in 2023.
Join us live if you can, but it not, you can get the show later by subscribing to the podcast. If you use iTunes, you can add Midrats to your podcast list simply by clicking the iTunes button at the main showpage - or you can just click here. You can find us on almost all your most popular podcast aggregators as well.
I can't "do" podcasts, they drive me nuts, but happy anniversary anyway.
Your podcast provides a great service, three comments: more work needs to be done on the impact of careerism on decision making, you waffle on the subject of lessons learned, you never address the failures of officer recruitment.