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Giving the Taiwan Hot Pot a Good Stir

...this is how it is done...

December 4, 2025 at 5:44 PM

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Can Maritime Power Recapture San Francisco Bay?

...can we get past the brown fields, radiation, and Moonbatistans?

December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM

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Royal Navy is Re-thinking how it Promotes its People, so Should we

you get what you reward

December 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM

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Ukraine Needs to Open up to Commerce Raiding

the international community will not do what needs to be done

December 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM

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another child sacrifice

November 28, 2025 at 3:22 PM

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The SECNAV Delivers Your Takesgiving Turkey

...will this bring change, or are we resigned to decline and defeat?

November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM

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Nigeria's Jihad: Only a problem if you try to take action to stop it? Really?

should not be Just a "Trump Issue"

November 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM

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Did Sen. Kelly (D-AZ) Put the SHIPS for America Act in Danger?

how big is the frag pattern on this stupid blow-up?

November 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM

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SECARMY's Shows the Way

November 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM

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Time for an Aviation Safety Stand Down?

...or just noise in the data?

From the Senate to the Secretary of the Army

November 20, 2025 at 3:52 PM

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From Captain Kelly’s foible, to SECARMY’s excellence. open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalam...

Episode 29: 19NOV2025

November 20, 2025 at 1:18 PM

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Quartermaster Bloomfield on Contract Maintenance

show me how this works in the Great Pacific War under fire

November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM

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We Need to Talk About Ken Burns’s PBS American Revolution Documentary

Howard Zinn smiles...

November 18, 2025 at 7:55 PM

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Just a Succulent Chinese Meal

...however...is it that much better than a good curry?

open.spreaker.com/A4NZ/dhp4caix

November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM

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Episode 738: Is the Navy Missing its Moment, with Chris Servello

For a decade and a half, since President Obama’s Pacific Pivot speech, there has been a rising tide in the conversation about the need to fix the US Navy’s

open.spreaker.com

November 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM

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don't speak to me of your false heroes

November 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM

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The Last 600 Meters: PBS's 17 Year Disgrace

no, you are not outraged enough, but watch anyway

A Wakeup Call at Whitman AFB

November 13, 2025 at 6:04 PM

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You’re not being paranoid if people are actually trying to get you. open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalam...

you aren't paranoid if people are actually trying to get you

November 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM

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The Eleventh Hour of the Eleventh Day of the Eleventh Month

remembering the mistake that made modernity

November 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM

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Keeping an Eye on the Long Game: Part CIII

The China Doves: Can't Stop, Won't Stop

November 10, 2025 at 1:28 PM

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Good friends will always stand by you in a fight.
open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalam...

a good friend in a fight is a true friend

November 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM

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from space to the NYC's next chapter

Episode 28: 05NOV2025

The Nationalists Defeat the Communists Without Firing a Shot

November 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM

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The news out of Vietnam continues to be good. open.substack.com/pub/cdrsalam...

...not yet...but trending?

November 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM

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Australia has a Chance to do the Most Incredible Thing

one shouldn't be forced to sell the rope that will be used to hang you with

November 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM

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First Australia, the South Korea...who Next Wants to be in the SSN Club

nations have FOMO too