Summary

In this episode of Commander Salamander’s UNCLAS Read Board, Sal discusses various topics including the discussion of humanitarian assistance and disaster response on last Sunday’s Midrats, military readiness, national security issues, and the challenges faced by the United Nations. He also critiques the state of shipbuilding in the U.S. and the …

Episode 3 of the paid-subscriber-only podcast.

I review a little bit of previous posts and last Sunday’s Midrats with Steve Deal, a preview of tomorrow’s Substack.

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* Eastern Mediterranean naval forces.

* Interesting speaker at the US Naval Academy’s Bancroft Lecture on October 10th.

* …and she has more thoughts.

* Houbei-class guided-missile craft from the…

As promised, or threatened, this will start the paid-subscriber-only podcast.

I will try to put up one a week, but maybe less and if events demand, perhaps more.

After thanking the Founding Members, I outline the plan forward, review some recent thoughts, and give a preview of upcoming Substack posts. I will also add a little commentary about a grumpy Rus…

A mentioned on Monday’s post, the 22nd was my 20th year writing as “CDR Salamander.”

Over on X, Claude and I held a Spaces where in the course of almost two hours we discussed the dawn of “milblogging” and a review of the ups and downs of a couple of decades in the marketplace of ideas.