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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world.

This week, if there’s any one thing each one of us shares, it’s the need for sleep. The need for truly restful sleep – and the lack of getting enough it – has become a core issue for the US Navy in recent years, especially following the 2017 destroyer collisions where fatigue was cited as a key factor in how fatal mistakes were made. A new sleep policy was issued late last year by the Navy directing changes in watch schedules to give sailor more rest, but challenges remain in implementing real changes while at sea aboard a 24/7 warship. We’ll talk with the US Navy’s top sleep expert, Dr John Cordle, a retired Navy Capitan, about what’s needed, what the Navy is trying to do, and whether or not it’s working.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Cavas has France on his mind.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world.

This week, the blockbuster announcement this week of a new multinational deal for Australia to buy and build nuclear-powered attack submarines caught much of the naval world by surprise, and there are many more questions than answers at this point. We’ll be joined by our colleague Vago Muradian to discuss some of the many aspects of this deal, which involves and affects Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and most importantly, China.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Servello comments on the United States' need to up its game .

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world.

The world’s prosperity of the past 75 years is largely due to the US Navy’s success in keeping the oceans safe for commerce, argues the author of a new book. But he also warns of the dangers the service faces in continuing its dominance and what that could mean for global security. We talk with Gregg Easterbrook, author of author The Blue Age.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Cavas comments on the twentieth anniversary of 9-11.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world.

This week…the House and Senate armed services committees have approved big increases in the number of new ships to buy and in the Pentagon’s overall budget. But where’s the money? Will the appropriations committees agree? And - hurricanes, floods and rising waters. We take a look at how hurricanes and climate change can hit the Navy in its shipbuilding breadbasket - the Gulf Coast. 

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Servello comments on climate. change.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world.

This week…Rumors about the Pentagon’s budget plans for the Navy do not sound good. We talk with CDR Issac Harris, a destroyer captain about his recent experiences getting his ship through a major yard period and what the Navy could do to make the whole process better. 

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Cavas comments on the Navy's Budget woes.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world.

This week…US forces again are headed to Haiti to try and help in the aftermath of another devastating earthquake. We talk with a veteran of several humanitarian assistance/disaster relief missions to try and get a handle on what’s involved. And with the US withdrawal from most combat missions in the mideast what might that mean for the huge naval presence that’s been maintained for over 40 years? We’ll take a look. 

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Servello comments on the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world.

This week…does the US Navy have the right idea about how it uses and deploys its forces? One group of naval analysts thinks the whole fleet structure should be redefined. We’ll discuss. And how do the Chinese view US Navy surface action groups? How are they maintaining their rapidly-growing fleet? We’ll take a look.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Cavas praises Navy leaders for the progress made on USS Gerald R. Ford.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world.

This week…strategy and concepts. Speeches and presentation panels. Ships and aircraft and radars and missiles and drones and sensors and torpedoes and well, you get the picture. We talk about the just-concluded Navy League Sea-Air-Space exposition with two great guests, Sam Lagrone of US Naval Institute News and the never-reticent Vago Muradian. But first, a quick roundup of naval news around the world.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Servello shares some thoughts on Admiral Mike Gilday's remarks at Sea, Air and Space.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world.

This week…a great naval aviator met an untimely end earlier this week. we’ll be talking with a special guest who knew and flew with Dale “Snort” Snodgrass. We also preview the Navy League's Sea, Air and Space trade show – the first major American live naval event since March 2020.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Servello talks about the need for a more complete maritime discussion. 

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world.

This week…a discussion with Richard Scott, one of Britain’s leading naval correspondents about the Royal Navy’s new Queen Elizabeth-class carriers, the first of which is now leading an international task group on a historic deployment to the Indo-Pacific region.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Cavas talks about the goods and bads of locking in ship designs.

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