It's too darn hot to do anything outside, so stay inside and put your mind to work!

EagleOne and Sal start the show with the discussion of books they plan to use to help overcome the mid-summer heat and then cover some of the latest and greatest on the national security front, at least as we define it!

Books Discussed:

EagleOne’s List:

• Developing the Naval Mind, B J Armstrong.
• Looking for a Ship, John McPhee,
• Jade Rooster: An Asiatic Fleet Thriller, R.L. Crossland
• Raven One, Kevin Miller (
• Chinese Account of the Opium War, (annotated with study guide), E.H. Parker
• The Commodore, P. T. Deutermann,
• Flight of the Intruder, Stepheen Coonts,
• Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk,
• The Caine Mutiny, Wouk
• The Connor Stark Novels, Claude Berube
• The Abandoned Ocean, Andrew Gibson & Arthur Donovan \
• Bridges at Toko-Ri, James Michener
• Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II, Arthur Herman

Sal’s List:

• The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan by Stephen Harding
• The Political Uses of Sea Power by Edward Luttwak
• What the Citizen Should Know About the Navy by Hansen Baldwin
• Suez to Singapore by Cecil Brown
• Logistics in the National Defense by Henry Eccles
• The White Guard by Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov

Upcoming books by upcoming Midrats Guests:

• Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End by Jerry Dunleavy, James Hasson
• Upcoming book on Task Force Lion by Seth W.B. Folsom

Links Discussed:

• State Department after action report on Afghanistan
• New Zealand’s economic addiction to the People’s Republic of China
• CIA Director William J. Burns’s Ditchley Foundation lecture
• The PLAN’s new Cambodian base.