Episode 660: Mid-Summer Free For All!

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. CrosslandRaven One, Kevin Miller (Chinese Account of the Opium War, (annotated with study guide), E.H. ParkerThe Commodore, P. T. Deutermann,Flight of the Intruder, Stepheen Coonts,Winds of War, War and Remembrance, Herman Wouk,The Caine Mutiny, WoukThe Connor Stark Novels, Claude BerubeThe Abandoned Ocean, Andrew Gibson & Arthur Donovan \Bridges at Toko-Ri, James MichenerFreedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II, Arthur HermanSal’s List:The Castaway's War: One Man's Battle against Imperial Japan by Stephen HardingThe Political Uses of Sea Power by Edward LuttwakWhat the Citizen Should Know About the Navy by Hansen BaldwinSuez to Singapore by Cecil BrownLogistics in the National Defense by Henry EcclesThe White Guard by Mikhail Afanasevich BulgakovUpcoming 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 HassonUpcoming book on Task Force Lion by Seth W.B. FolsomLinks Discussed:State Department after action report on AfghanistanNew Zealand’s economic addiction to the People’s Republic of ChinaCIA Director William J. Burns’s Ditchley Foundation lectureThe PLAN’s new Cambodian base.