CDR Salamander @cdrsalamander

Fullbore Friday great ship; greater leader

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08.08.2025 15:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bringing Academies & War Colleges Back to Centerline people, processes, place, and mindsets

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07.08.2025 15:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Take Your Globe & Tilt it Towards You 90 degrees ...and then let's talk about the Arctic..

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06.08.2025 16:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Australia is Going Japanese no Vapors needed

Isn't it great when your friends are friends too, and do things together that help everyone?
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05.08.2025 15:11 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Episode 729: High Summer Free For All, from the CNO, to unmanned systems, to ... Austria? Show Links - https://www.twz.com/sea/navy-unmasks-its-vision-for-fleet-of-uncrewed-modular-surface-attack-craft - https://blog.usni.org/posts/2008/12/09/departm

From the new CNO, to drones to … Austria?

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04.08.2025 15:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

04.08.2025 12:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A Death in the Pacific distracted or not, the region is looking at what we do, or don't do

The personal is political, and strategic.
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30.07.2025 18:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

All the Expanded Shipyard Capacity Won't Help us if we Don't Do this First its not industrial planning, it is national survival

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28.07.2025 15:32 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fullbore Friday It is only fitting that we do an update this last Friday of July of one of my favorite FbF that I have referred to often over the years.

Names matter. open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalam...

25.07.2025 14:29 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What Does the Expected New CNO Think? well, just read his answers

When in doubt, just read what they say. open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalam...

24.07.2025 19:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I Think we Might Know What We're Calling the F/A-XX Could the Navy Wind up With the Fighter it Needs?

Watch out!

Here comes the double-nickle!!! open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalam...

23.07.2025 20:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Battle of the Ports is Afoot let's check in on the European front

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22.07.2025 18:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Nuclear Priesthood is Having a Moment there is stirring in the Temple of Syrinx, it seems

Always have a plan for the end of the world as we know it. open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalam...

21.07.2025 20:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Episode 728: Non-State Special Operations, with Craig Whiteside and Ian Rice On today’s Midrats, we have returning guest Craig Whiteside and his co-author Ian C. Rice joining us to discuss one of the nightmares we all have in the new b

Did you miss yesterday’s LIVE #Midrats Podcast with @CraigAWhiteside & Ian Rice to discuss Violent Non-State Actor special operations?

Well, let not your heart be troubled...the podcast is up! spreaker.onelink.me/A4NZ/88r5ig2h

21.07.2025 16:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

YouTube video by Naval News French Navy's future Airbus A321 MPA

[VIDEO] French Navy's future Airbus A321 MPA 🇫🇷
@marinenationale.bsky.social Captain Johann, Head of Naval Air Office, Navy HQ - Plans / Programs, discusses the key requirement that led to the choice of the Airbus A321 MPA solution: Long range & a large weapons bay ✈️⚓️
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17.07.2025 14:49 — 👍 49 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 0

Fullbore Friday Spad v. Fresco

Fight with what you have when the fight comes your way. "Impossible"?

Only if you quit.

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18.07.2025 13:46 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I Have Our Next Cruiser, if You're Smart Enough to Take it the easy answer is often the best answer

Sometimes, we create solutions but are so close to them, we don't even notice. open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalam...

17.07.2025 14:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Netherlands Air Chief urges NATO to examine ‘shortfalls’ without ‘US assets’ “Above all, deep pockets filled with ammunition,” is required, Lt. Gen. André Steur said, “because numbers do matter in the world we live in.”

Netherlands Air Chief urges NATO to examine ‘shortfalls’ without ‘US assets’
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/07/netherlands-air-chief-urges-nato-to-examine-shortfalls-without-us-assets/

16.07.2025 13:46 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The Three Amigos of WESTPAC this is how we win, or preferably, deter war

Exactly the right things are happening in the Pacific if you look for them. open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalam...

16.07.2025 13:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

In the Red Sea, Don't Bring a Gun to a Missile Fight Operation Hodgepodge

Operations in the Red Sea are kind of a modern mess, aren't they?

The modern age can't seem to deal with even 4th rate challenges.

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15.07.2025 13:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Big Defense Budgets are not Coming plan for it

No, it's not too early to pour a stiff drink. open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalam...

14.07.2025 14:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That is what I recall.

10.07.2025 13:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Old and Busted: Phat MK-48--New Hotness: MK-58? less is more

Get me a spot welder and a cruise-box full of duct tape and bailing wire--I'm putting this puppy on everything that floats. open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalam...

10.07.2025 13:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

How to Blunt a PRC Invasion of Taiwan? Operation Swooper strand them on the beach

An unsexy mission? Depends on your definition of "sexy." Most fun a bomber could have outside the Three Gorges Dam in my book. open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalam...

07.07.2025 15:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0