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The Third Winter of the Three-Week War

China to the world: what are you going to do about it?

The Midrats Horn of Plenty

Fullbore Friday

In Case You've Missed it, the USA is Seen as a Weak Horse

Admiral Paparo Goes Salamander at Brookings

Episode 7: 19NOV2024

How to Get the Navy's Groove Back

Behold the Red Sea Clown Show

The Opportunities With Trump's Return, with Jerry Dunleavy - on Midrats

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

Your High Value Unit (HVU) May Not be What You Think it is

Arm the Auxiliaries

The 11th Day of the 11th Month

A Post-Election Midrats Melee

Fullbore Friday

SECNAV Extends Burke, Tico Decom Dates

Episode 6: 06NOV2024

Fat Leonard and Phat Victories

Why does 2027 Keep Coming up About the Chinese Military?

Who Put Quartermaster Bloomfield in Charge of Defending Guam?

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

Episode 5: 31OCT2024

NATO Needs to Fix its German Problem

Serious Nations Do Serious Things. Unserious Nations Waste Their Inheritance

First 100 Days for Seapower

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

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!

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

SLCM-N? Hard Pass

Episode 4: 15OCT2024

Running out of SM-3 at Sea?

Mid-OCT Midrats Maritime Melee

Fullbore Friday

The Houthis' Issue Isn't Really With Israel

2023 INSURV Report, finally in 1QFY2025

Japan's New Look Leadership

Fullbore Friday

There Goes Diego...Garcia

Episode 3: 02OCT2024

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

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

This is What Your Navy with Accountancy in Primacy Looks Like

Episode 2: 24SEP2024

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

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

The New CNO has her Navigation Plan Out

Another Victory for the PRC

Paying Others to do Your Job

Fullbore Friday

The Attacks in the Red Sea Have a Pattern

The Sad Shadow of a Seapower

23 Years in the Blink of an Eye

Hypersonics Won't Save Us

The Army Cut a Spruance DD into 16 Bits

September Free For All - on Midrats

Fullbore Friday

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

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

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

Fullbore Friday

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

Fullbore Friday

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!

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

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

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

National Defense Strategy? What National Defense Strategy?

Debt Slavery, with Chinese Characteristics

July Maritime Free for All ... on Midrats!

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

20 Years of the Salamander Interview

So, How is the Red Sea Fight Going?

20 Years of the Salamander

European Naval Power With Jeremy Stöhs - on Midrats

Fullbore Friday

Assassination Attempts, Spin, Accountability & a Culture of Untruth

So, What's China Doing in Our Time Zones?

The Generous Gift from the Houthi

0.63 MOA Away - That's it

Russia in Year Three of the War, with Dr. Dmitry Gorenburg - on Midrats

Fullbore Friday

Flank, Front, & the Importance of Language

Oh Noes ... Muh NATO

China, Ukraine, & GWOT: The Warping Power of Dissolution Begat by Lies

Ready for a Lean Six Sigma Flashback?

Fullbore Friday

Happy 4th

Caroline Glick on 'Failed Doctrines'

The Most Essential Battle of the Russo-Ukrainian War

Fullbore Friday

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?

Emperor Tiberius Consulting

Ethics & Ethical Failure in the Profession of Arms, with Dr. Pauline Shanks-Kaurin - on Midrats

Fullbore Friday

Submarine Industrial Capacity Wishcasting in a Time Dominated by Happy Talk

The National Guard Forgets Itself

What's Wrong With History?

While We Quibble & Fool, the PRC Builds

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

An Incredibly Dangerous Time to be an American

Less Pilot Training, but TTPs

China's Expanding Base in Hainan

Fat Leonard, with Craig Whitlock - on Midrats

Fullbore Friday

I'll take 10...of everything

Keeping an Eye on the Long Game: Part CI

A June Midrats Melee!

Fullbore Friday

Danzig & Mullen? Nonconcur.

So, How is that National Commission on the Future of the Navy Doing?

From Abbey Gate to Gaza

Memorial Day in Halifax

Diversity Thursday

SSNs at Horse Latitudes

So, What's the Deal With the Drone Carrier

USS CARNEY (DDG 64) - BZ

Mid-May Midrats Melee!

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

Not Your Grandfather's Philippines

Japan's Renaissance

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

What do we do about shipbuilding?

NWC's Accidental Oversight, or Something Else?

Fullbore Friday

Keeping an Eye on the Long Game: Part C

The Future Imperfect

2050 is not an "Out Year"

Anglo-American Naval Sitrep with Emma Salisbury - on Midrats

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

What Happened to Our Ship Repair Infrastructure?

The Boxer is 2024 Navy's Canary

Israel's Measured Response

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

The Demographics of the Russian Way of War

Victory and Failure in the Great American-Israeli Eastern Mediterranean Range Day MISSILEX of April 2024

Episode 686: China's Steady Game, with Dean Cheng

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

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

Fullbore Friday

Don't Skip Range Day

NAVSEA & OPNAV's FITREP in a 3x8 Grid

America: Bad Empire or Poor Friend?

120mm Riverine Mortars for All my Friends

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

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

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

The View from Admiral Aquilino's Chair

INDOPACOM Unfunded Priorities for the FY25 budget

The View from the High North

The Urgent Need for U.S. Maritime Reform with William Cahill - on Midrats

Fullbore Friday

Pivots, Strategic Persistence, & Rethinking MPS

What War, Exactly, are we Preparing for?

So, a Pier for Hamas it is

Seablindness with Dr. James W.E. Smith, on Midrats

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

The Army Discovers the Navy's "Fortress Fleet"

Midrats March Melee!

War is Brutally Honest - Name it as Such

Fullbore Friday

TACAIR's Anti-Surface Pocket Rockets

Begun, the Cable Wars Have

VLS Reloading: time, distance, & opportunity cost

The Military-Industrial Complex Wears a White Hat with Bryan McGrath - on Midrats

Fullbore Friday

Where Has Your Navy Moved on the Salamander Hierarchy of Maritime Power?

BZ to USAF Secretary

Sealift: a Tragedy of Numbers

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

Fullbore Friday

Waiting at the Center of the Terrible 20s

The Aesthetics of a Recapitalized Maritime Industry

Germany: A Political not an Industry Problem?

Tower 22's White Swan

A Midrats January Free For All

Fullbore Friday

See the Pacific from China's Perspective

So, Does the USA's Iron Triangle Frustrate You?

Where is Taiwan's Cherbourg?

Questioning the Carrier with Jeff Vandenengel - on Midrats

Fullbore Friday

The Costs of War at Sea

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

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

The CNO Stated Her Priorities

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

Fullbore Friday

Diversity Thursday

F-35 & the God's of the Copybook Headings

DDG to FFG to OPV: Small Ships, Big Sticks, & Scaled Escalation