Sitemap - 2025 - CDR Salamander
The Nationalists Defeat the Communists Without Firing a Shot
Australia has a Chance to do the Most Incredible Thing
First Australia, then South Korea...who Next Wants to be in the SSN Club?
HII and HHI partner to save USN's tail
Old and Busted: Pacific Pivot. New Hotness: Caribbean Pivot.
Maritime Statecraft and its Future, with Hunter Stires - on Midrats
Overdue for De-NORKification of our Uniforms
Singapore Gets a Proper Frigate
Anduril and the Promise of Autonomous Systems - with Chris Brose
The Best Point in the Great 2025 Battleship Battle
Shipbuilding, Shareholders, and National Asynchronization
The Superb Finland & USA Icebreaker Deal is Here
TLAM, Messaging, Theory, & Reality
Two Years Since the Oct. 7th Slaughter
We Need to Rethink Retirement Ceremonies
Yes, I Can Say Nice Things About LCS
We Don't Need a New Force Design, or National Strategy
How to Respond to China's Growing Nuclear Capability?
China: Rested and Ready ... with Dean Cheng on Midrats
If F/A-XX Can't do This, We Don't Need It
Fronts, Flanks, & NATO's Silly Name Games
Japan's Ship Classification Gets too Clever by Half, and I like it.
AUKUS, Australia, Alliances & the Pacific, with Gray Connolly--on Midrats
From Vice Chief of Naval Operations to Federal Prisoner, and for What?
Japan is Wayne E. Meyer'n Railguns
Back to Subic Bay...with Friends?
AUKUS--too Important to Balk on
Greenland, AUKUS, and NATSEC Polar Politics, with Dr. Elizabeth Buchanan--on Midrats
So, we Now Have the "War" in "Drug War"
We Still Live by Lies About Afghanistan
The CNO's Top-5, but About #2...
NATO Has a New Alliance Maritime Strategy
Can Everyone in the Caribbean Just Chill for a While?
The 4th Summer of War, with Dr. Dmitry Gorenburg - on Midrats
Sal's "Plan Italy" for NATO...and Herself
4th Anniversary Review: This is What a Whole of Government Epistemic Failure Looks Like
The Drone Canary in the M.I.C. Coal Mine
Gen. Christopher Donahue, USA, Wants a Pony for Christmas
China's Show of Force in ... the Arctic
The Scarborough Shoal Bumper Boats
Bringing Academies & War Colleges Back to Centerline
Take Your Globe & Tilt it Towards You 90 degrees
Surface Drones...More Faster, Please
A Midrats High Summer Free For All
All the Expanded Shipyard Capacity Won't Help us if we Don't Do this First
What Does the Expected New CNO Think?
I Think we Might Know What We're Calling the F/A-XX
The Battle of the Ports is Afoot
The Nuclear Priesthood is Having a Moment
Non-State Special Operations, with Craig Whiteside & Ian Rice - on Midrats
I Have Our Next Cruiser, if You're Smart Enough to Take it
In the Red Sea, Don't Bring a Gun to a Missile Fight
The Big Defense Budgets are not Coming
The Power & Spirit of Camp David - on Midrats
Old and Busted: Phat MK-48--New Hotness: MK-58?
Wait...We Don't Have to Give up on the Railgun?
How to Blunt a PRC Invasion of Taiwan? Operation Swooper
Shipbuilding: Patience or Dispair?
The USAF is Having a Good Year
Sloops of War: Now More Than Ever
What is the Shelf Life of Intel Reports?
Three Interesting Tid-Bits so far from the Israeli Strikes on Iran
Israel Buys Itself, the World, and Iranians More Time
Send Our Best and Brightest to Grad School?
The Israeli Navy Strikes Yemen From the Sea
What Happened to Command Accountability and Responsibility?
The Naval Academy History Department is in a Spot of Bother
The Fictional Officer Corps: From Hornblower to Stark - with Claude Berube
Mold Builds Character. Thin Walls Enhance Lethality
Increase Navy Accountability with This One Simple Trick
US Navy Shipyards: What They Took From Us
Ukrainian Drones are Tapping us on Our Shoulder
What Happens When You Let the PRC Get Away with the South China Sea Grabs
This is the Greatest Existential Threat to the Republic
Ready to Defend Guam...from the South?
OK, so it Wasn't a Special Reason for the DDG
If We are Reducing GOFO Numbers...
Preparation of the Seabed Battlefield
The Maritime Industrial Base Won't Rebuild Itself
How do you Fight Through the Pacific Dead Zone?
The US Navy is Sleepwalking into Defeat
We Must Not Let the F/A-18 Line Go Cold
Army Steals a March in Adjusting to Change
China's Overseas Bases & the Transition to War, with T.X. Hammes-on Midrats
The Fall of Saigon: 50 Years on
What Could China do to the USA on D+0?
If You Think Greenland is Strategic...
Reforming the Pentagon, with Gary Anderson
SECNAVY Phelan: First Person Spoken Word
Five Points of Pentagon Reform?
Sen. Tim Sheehy on the Challenges and Opportunities Revitalizing the Navy - on Midrats
The PRC is not Hiding the Ball
So, Does China's Shipbuilding Capacity Concern You?
Kendall, NGAD, & the Acquisition Mindset that Must Go
The SECNAV Received His Direction & Guidance
Episode 719: NATO's Maritime North, with Dr. Sebastian Bruns - on Midrats
All Hail the First of Hopefully Many Maritime Focused Executive Orders
Eight Commandants, One Message
What Europe Should, Could, and Would do in a Great Pacific War
No, European Strategic Autonomy Drive is not Trump Related
Constellation: Frigate Antigone
2025 March Military Industrial Complex Madness Begins
How About USCG do Coast Guarding ... and USN do Navaling?
The Maritime State, with Ross Kennedy - on Midrats
If You're Taking JCIDS, Grab CAPE While You're at it
Does Israel have the Key to Modernity's Fatal Flaw?
Is UAE Edging Back into the Yemen Conflict?
PLAN's Operation Tasmanian Dragon
Privateers: Now More Than Ever
Securing Ukraine's Future Security, with Emma Ashford
PLAN War College v. Our Naval War College
Iffy Cold War Nuclear Theory is Only Worse Now
The 4th Year of the Russo-Ukrainian War of 2022 is Upon Us.
The German Elections: Take the "W"
The New Administration and China, with Dean Cheng - on Midrats
USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) Got Bumped Ugly
Is "Someone" Fiddl'n With the German Navy?
What if Canada Were Conservative?
21-Days of Trump Chapter 2: How is Everyone Holding Up?
China Moves on the Cook Islands
The Chinese Arctic is an Actual Thing
Double Defense Spending, France? Well...
Seth Folsom's, Nothing Here Worth Dying For, on Midrats
So, We're Back to Paying Tribute?
This is Where the Navy Gets More Money
Condition of the Navy's Amphibious Fleet And Its Impacts on Marines: the View from GAO - on Midrats
Want Effective Drones? Make it Competitive
Red Sea Experience: Don't Let Others Ignore It
The Defense Reformation, with Shyam Sankar - on Midrats
So, I Assume Fuel Supply for the Pacific Fight is Fat & Secure?
So, We're Going to Screw up DDG(X) too?
Improving US & Allied Shipbuilding & Repair, with Michael Roberts & Bryan Clark - on Midrats
Permission Structures, a PSYOP Against the American People, & the Big Man Theory
The PRC is Signaling its First Moves