CDR Salamander
National security, maritime challenges, naval issues with a flavoring of other things I find interesting.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Daily |
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When Your Navy is too Small, the Bill Comes Due Bigly
As the record shows on CDR Salamander and the Midrats Podcast, our shortage of maintenance facilities and the resulting lack of capacity have been known problems for decades. We have known that we don’t have enough capacity to meet even exp...
Episode 49: 28OCT2026
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Summary
The West’s International Order is on Borrowed Time
One of the more tiresome phrases one hears bandied about is usually a variation on one of these generally interchangeable themes:
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The International Rules Based Order
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Liberal International Order
It is all on borrowed time.
It...
NATO Needs an Emergency Summit on This
In 1QFY2026, there cannot be anyone in Europe or North America—much less anyone in a NATO nation—who still thinks that the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is a good-faith business partner unless they are compromised or thick as a brick....
Old & Busted: Loyal Wingman - New Hotness: Loyal Escort
Do we have that rare intersection of unmet-need, essential requirement, and unexpected answer?
Maybe. We’re not the first, but we kind of wandered into it on yesterday’s Midrats Podcast.
I’d like to set the table first.
A saying I first...
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