CDR Salamander
National security, maritime challenges, naval issues with a flavoring of other things I find interesting.
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CBO Ponders BBGN
One of the least helpful aspects of the modern-day battleship debate is the fact it has been so highly politicized.
Whenever an announcement of a milestone comes up, the first thing that has to be done in the search for useful information...
Episode 44: 05AUG2026
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It's OK to say Japan is rearming. It is.
A very strange and rather short article came out yesterday from Richard Fontaine, the CEO at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).
I shouldn’t have to say this, but I will: this isn’t personal, this is professional.
I had to doub...
Hold you breath, click the heels of your LOX boots three times, and you have a SSGN!
The inevitable started last week.
The U.S. Navy has begun retiring its first of four Ohio class guided missile submarines, with the USS Georgia scheduled to be officially inactivated on July 31 following its return to Naval Submarine Bas...
If you use pliers as a screwdriver, you just make a mess
One of the great things about today’s information environment in national security is the vast number of voices out there. I know for some this is a frustration—because they desire more control or are simply too lazy to want many choices—bu...
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