Sitemap - 2023 - CDR Salamander
Barfights, Winchester, Indians & Bearing the Unsustainable
Replicator: if You're Explaining, You're Losing
Ukraine's Summer Offensive: the Clear-Eyed POSTEX
Deterrence is in the Head as Much as the Spreadsheet
A Gathering of Burkes Sails East
A New Combined Task Force Builds in the Red Sea
The Cold Truth of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Reading the NDAA Tealeaves II: Electric Boogaloo
Where is the "International" in "International Order" - with Elbridge Colby
The Salamander Seminar with the Canary Group
Keeping an Eye on the Long Game: Part XCIX
USS CARNEY's (DDG 64) Red Sea Battles
Front or Flank: the Importance of Words
Europe's Entitlement Bird Looking for a Place to Roost
The Naval War College After October 7th
American Naval Forces (with a Japanese assist) Capture Pirates
How do You Pull a Merchant Fleet Out of a Hat?
The State of the USN's Combat Logistics Force Ships with Dr. James Holmes, on Midrats
Deindustrialization in the UK is Almost Complete
China's New Cambodian Naval Base: Rev. 1
Measuring & Modeling the Naval Presence Mission with Jerry Hendrix - on Midrats
What a Balanced Fleet Looks Like
Germany's Delusions Come Home to Roost
Rickover Uncensored with Claude Berube
Do We Give Them the War They Want?
Two Proxies Wars in the Old World and the Big Show in WESTPAC
The Next Godzilla Movie Will be Lit!
Florida's Solution to the University Problem
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Still the Lioness of the West
No One Asked, "Where's the 82nd Airborne?"
24,669 Americans Murdered by Terrorists in One Day
LCS's Long, Sad, and Early Goodbye
What if Everyone Wanted a Maritime Strategy, but ...
Fall Maritime Free For All - on Midrats
No Justice for the Fat Leonard Four
An Inadequate Navy? A Common Affliction.
Why Engineers Should Not be Readiness Officers
The Indo-Pacific Quad in 2023 with Blake Herzinger
Future Casting, Predictions & Some Context on the Age of Transformation
Red Hills & the Numbing Power of a Culture of Lies
Fading FY23 Midrats Free For All!
DEPSECDEF Hicks's "Replicator" Speech: 80% Cringe, 20% Excellence
This is not the NYT Article Navalists Were Waiting For
The PRC's Buildup is not a Jobs Program
Sorry, the Swarm will not Save Us
The Spanish Civil War in ... Ukraine?
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad BRICS?
So, You Like the UUV Concept, eh?
Progress in WESTPAC, Just in Time
Keeping an Eye on the Long Game: Part XCVIII
The Road to the Fall of Kabul, with Jerry Dunleavy - on Midrats
LCS: Requiem for Transformationalism
Let the Families of the 13 Fallen Speak
Russians Advance the Ratchet Another Click in the Black Sea
China's Summer from the Aleutians to Guadalcanal with Dean Cheng - on Midrats
Ukraine, Russia, and Doing Business With the Enemy
An Unsophisticated Chinese Navy? Really?
The US Naval Reserve in Ukraine & More with Chris Rawley
A Perfect Storm of Unpreparedness
West African Sahel, Colonial Echoes, Migration, Ukraine, & a Whiff Franco-Russian Proxy Wars
What Does Taking the PRC Threat Seriously Look Like?
A Good Game of Catch Up in the SW Pacific
Another Layer to the Nation Humiliation at Kabul
Grain, Oil, and the Unfreeing of the Seas with John Konrad - on Midrats
Why No Productions Lines Can Go Cold
Army TLAM and SM-6? OK, but ...
Seaplanes Bring Out the Worst in the Potomac Flotilla
Summer Doldrums Melee on Midrats
No, Our SSN's are not Ready for a Great Pacific War
NATO, Ukraine & Lifeboat Ethics
Ukraine's Millennial War Barons
Midrats Mid Summer Free For All!
Mom, We Didn't Really Want to Leave
Have Yourself a Very Nimitz July 4th
War over Taiwan? Let's Discuss This First
Keeping the US Undersea Advantage, with Bryan Clark - on Midrats
Waiting for a New Naval Strategy?
How Weak is the Strongest Nation in Continental Europe?
How to Make the West Coast USNR a War Winner?
"Optimal Manning's" International Public Disgrace - Norwegian Edition
Funding DOD in Inflation & About Replacing Weapons & Ammo Sent to Ukraine ...
Strategy for Facing the Chinese & Russian Threat, with Brent Sadler - on Midrats
21st Century Jeep Carrier - but Faster and for UAS
When the PRC Tells You Who They Are...
Strategy, Uncertainty and the China Challenge with Jeffrey Meiser & Renny Babiarz, on Midrats
The World We Won; The World We Made; The World China Built While We Were Distracted
Marines: "Huh. Riverine Looks Useful."
Make the Quad a Quint with a Center Square by 2035
The Philippine Pact with Claude Berube, on Midrats
If Public Opinion isn't Stopping Europe...
We Were Lied to - no We're Lying to Each Other
About that Commission on the Future of the Navy
No, Two More DDG to Spain is not Something to Celebrate
Lothair, Louis, Charles ... & Sam's Bar Tab
From LCS to Missing Pay - the Wrong Midset Remains
Our Navy Needs More of the War, Less of the College
No, No One Tried to Assassinate Putin
Humility & Hard Questions Win Wars
Command Posts - Hunter or Hunted, with Lt Col. Matt. Arrol, U.S.A. - on Midrats
The False Choice of Ukraine or Taiwan
The PLAN is in the Walking Stage
It's a Midrats April Free for All!!
Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding: There is Still Time to Get it Right
The Saving the USS Samuel B. Roberts at 35, with Bradley Peniston
Net Assessment, Convenient Leaks, and Climate Histeria
The PRC's Preparation of the Battlefield
How Many Cruisers Did the PRC Build in the Time ...
How Many Bottles of Catsup are in the Flag Mess?
If it Flies it Dies, with Tom Karako - on Midrats
The Weapons Gap With the PRC the USA Created and Funded: it Goes Boom
Seriously ... Who's Been Running Our Wargames Then ...
In a Fight, Having Your Reloads at Home in the Safe Won't Help
Transcript from the Defense Breakfast Seminar
NATO's Evolution in Response to the Russo-Ukrainian War with Jorge Benitez - on Midrats
The 2024 Defense Budget: A Mixed Bag for the Navy
Japan Puts a Marker Down in Europe
60-Minutes Does our Navy - and the Nation - a Solid. I'll take the "W"
Episode 650: Keeping America's Dominance at Sea with Jerry Hendrix
12 Years - Untold Misery - No Accountability
Hendrix's View from an Island Nation
The Three Wounds of our Amphibious Navy
Spring Back to the Front of the NATSEC World on Midrats
Nord Stream's Tap on the Shoulder
Keeping an Eye on the Long Game: Part XCVII
Parking is a Combat Multiplier
March Maritime Melee on Midrats!
Building the WESTPAC Team we Need
One Year in the Russo-Ukrainian War: the Big Pixels
The Russo-Ukrainian War D+365 Quicklook
Vietnam: the Great Strategic Opportunity
We Should be Brave Enough to Say Hard Things
We Have a Lot of Things to Relearn
The Democratic Party's Strange Internal Struggles on the Russo-Ukraine War
Our Navy at its Best: "Yeah, we can do that."
The Old Ways are the Same as the "New Ways" - Except for One
American Realism in the Russo-Ukrainian War with Rebeccah Heinrichs - on Midrats
Eastern Europe's Second Chance
Keeping an Eye on the Long Game: Part XCVI
Denial May Bring War - Punishment May Keep it at Bay
The People's Liberation Army Navy in 2023, with Toshi Yoshihara - on Midrats
Riverine: our Stupidity is Ukraine's Gift
The German Problem ... is our Problem
Can we Learn Something From the Air Force?
The Navy’s New Mission with Bryan McGrath - on Midrats
A Post-Davos World? Sign me up.
The Manning Shortfall Bow Wave is Only Starting
The Surface Force's Lost Generation