Sitemap - 2024 - CDR Salamander
The Third Winter of the Three-Week War
China to the world: what are you going to do about it?
In Case You've Missed it, the USA is Seen as a Weak Horse
Admiral Paparo Goes Salamander at Brookings
How to Get the Navy's Groove Back
The Opportunities With Trump's Return, with Jerry Dunleavy - on Midrats
Your High Value Unit (HVU) May Not be What You Think it is
The 11th Day of the 11th Month
SECNAV Extends Burke, Tico Decom Dates
Fat Leonard and Phat Victories
Why does 2027 Keep Coming up About the Chinese Military?
Who Put Quartermaster Bloomfield in Charge of Defending Guam?
NATO Needs to Fix its German Problem
Serious Nations Do Serious Things. Unserious Nations Waste Their Inheritance
Lies, Damn Lies, and Shipbuilding Plans
A Larger Navy is Not in the Cards
No Time for Woke Name Games at Sea
It's a Midrats Pre-Halloween Spooktacular!
Mid-OCT Midrats Maritime Melee
The Houthis' Issue Isn't Really With Israel
2023 INSURV Report, finally in 1QFY2025
Israel is Settling All Family Business, That it Can
Auxiliary Cruisers: Now More Than Ever
The Pentagon’s Gordian Knot, with Steve Deal - on Midrats
This is What Your Navy with Accountancy in Primacy Looks Like
There is Already a War in Lebanon
How do You Say "Frog Soup" in Mandarin?
20th & 21st Century Lessons with Chinese Characteristics: Toshi Yoshihara, on Midrats
The New CNO has her Navigation Plan Out
The Attacks in the Red Sea Have a Pattern
23 Years in the Blink of an Eye
The Army Cut a Spruance DD into 16 Bits
September Free For All - on Midrats
Hospital Ships: Always Salamander Approved
There is Dysfunction, and then there's USS Manchester (LCS 14) Gold Crews in 2023
Nice Budget You Have There Army
The Great Pacific War You Need to be Ready For
The Red Sea Calculus Needs Tweaking
The Perry's and the Path Not Taken
Kabul's Child Sacrifice - Three Years On
The Music Stopped at MSC, with Sal Mercogliano - on Midrats
Russia, With Chinese Characteristics
I Come to Bury CRUDES, not to Praise Her
China Goes a'Shouldering in the South China Sea
Searching for the military Laffer Curve
Ten Months of Lessons from the Red Sea, with Bryan McGrath, on Midrats
3rd Anniversary Review: This is What a Whole of Government Epistemic Failure Looks Like
Europe's Strange, Self-Destructive Delusions
You Can't go to War With Your Factory
Doing Just Less Than the Minimum in the Red Sea
What is 53 Years in the Life of a Navy?
A Constellation of Challenges, with Emma Salisbury - on Midrats!
What do You Mean We're an 11 Carrier Navy in a 15 Carrier World?
Another Carrier Enters the Indo-Pacific
The Natsec Gods of the Copybook Headings Have a Reminder
Cleo Paskal and the PRC in the Pacific Islands - on Midrats
National Defense Strategy? What National Defense Strategy?
Debt Slavery, with Chinese Characteristics
July Maritime Free for All ... on Midrats!
20 Years of the Salamander Interview
So, How is the Red Sea Fight Going?
European Naval Power With Jeremy Stöhs - on Midrats
Assassination Attempts, Spin, Accountability & a Culture of Untruth
So, What's China Doing in Our Time Zones?
The Generous Gift from the Houthi
Russia in Year Three of the War, with Dr. Dmitry Gorenburg - on Midrats
Flank, Front, & the Importance of Language
China, Ukraine, & GWOT: The Warping Power of Dissolution Begat by Lies
Ready for a Lean Six Sigma Flashback?
Caroline Glick on 'Failed Doctrines'
The Most Essential Battle of the Russo-Ukrainian War
Business Executives not Understanding Naval Power
INDOPACOM's Most Likely COA contra the PRC? I think it is called, "COA-Lotus"
Soviets? Us? The Ones Who Won the Cold War?
Ethics & Ethical Failure in the Profession of Arms, with Dr. Pauline Shanks-Kaurin - on Midrats
Submarine Industrial Capacity Wishcasting in a Time Dominated by Happy Talk
The National Guard Forgets Itself
While We Quibble & Fool, the PRC Builds
An Incredibly Dangerous Time to be an American
China's Expanding Base in Hainan
Fat Leonard, with Craig Whitlock - on Midrats
Keeping an Eye on the Long Game: Part CI
So, How is that National Commission on the Future of the Navy Doing?
So, What's the Deal With the Drone Carrier
Not Your Grandfather's Philippines
What do we do about shipbuilding?
NWC's Accidental Oversight, or Something Else?
Keeping an Eye on the Long Game: Part C
Anglo-American Naval Sitrep with Emma Salisbury - on Midrats
What Happened to Our Ship Repair Infrastructure?
The Boxer is 2024 Navy's Canary
The Demographics of the Russian Way of War
Episode 686: China's Steady Game, with Dean Cheng
From Omaha to Indianapolis: Accepting LCS as She is
What LCS Says About our Culture of Untruth
Making the Right Statement in WESTPAC
April Maritime Melée - on Midrats
NAVSEA & OPNAV's FITREP in a 3x8 Grid
America: Bad Empire or Poor Friend?
120mm Riverine Mortars for All my Friends
Our Navy's Promise to its Dead Remains Un-honored
So, We're Restocking the Standard Missiles We're Expending in the Red Sea, Right?
LCS - The Heavy Rotation Nightmare
End of March Free For All ... on Midrats
The View from Admiral Aquilino's Chair
INDOPACOM Unfunded Priorities for the FY25 budget
The Urgent Need for U.S. Maritime Reform with William Cahill - on Midrats
Pivots, Strategic Persistence, & Rethinking MPS
What War, Exactly, are we Preparing for?
Seablindness with Dr. James W.E. Smith, on Midrats
The Army Discovers the Navy's "Fortress Fleet"
War is Brutally Honest - Name it as Such
TACAIR's Anti-Surface Pocket Rockets
VLS Reloading: time, distance, & opportunity cost
The Military-Industrial Complex Wears a White Hat with Bryan McGrath - on Midrats
Where Has Your Navy Moved on the Salamander Hierarchy of Maritime Power?
US Navy in the Red Sea on 60-Minutes
So, Do Ship Numbers Matter or Not?
The PRC Peacetime Island Hopping Continues
War in WESTPAC? Really? You & What PGM Inventory?
The Little Carriers That Could
In Praise of the Military-Industrial Complex
The Eternally, Irreplaceably Vulnerable: Aircraft Carrier at War - with Dr. John T. Kuehn on Midrats
The Wages of Taking your MBA to War
VLS Reloads at Sea: Now More Than Ever
Waiting at the Center of the Terrible 20s
The Aesthetics of a Recapitalized Maritime Industry
Germany: A Political not an Industry Problem?
A Midrats January Free For All
See the Pacific from China's Perspective
So, Does the USA's Iron Triangle Frustrate You?
Questioning the Carrier with Jeff Vandenengel - on Midrats
2% Keeps on Slipp'n, Slipp'n, Slipp'n, in to the Future
First US Deaths in the 2024 Counter-Piracy Campaign
The Royal Navy's Familiar Problem
The Philippines and the People's Republic at Center Stage with Ray Powell on Midrats
Did you order your PLARF from Wish.com?
Restore Factory Settings at The Pentagon
The Allied State of Play at Sea with Kori Schake - on Midrats
F-35 & the God's of the Copybook Headings
DDG to FFG to OPV: Small Ships, Big Sticks, & Scaled Escalation