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The Tides Have Shifted

By CDR Salamander | Substack Like the great North American philosopher, Ferris Bueller said: This is the new acting Under...

By CDR Salamander Let’s speak candidly: our Navy needs friends. We don’t need to generate enemies nor have those in the...

By CDR Salamander | Substack Let’s revisit my post from 25 months ago to see how USNA has operationalized their Diversity...

By CDR Salamander | Substack Having checked my notes, in Annapolis we have the United States Naval Academy. Sure, there is...

By CDR Salamander | Substack It really has been an amazing few years where Congress slowly…slowly…started clawing...

By CDR Salamander | Substack It has been a couple of years since we last checked in on the United States Coast Guard...

by CDR Salamander | Substack There was once a time when the US military was a positive, forward moving force in bringing...

From CDR Salamander’s Substack: Of all places, look at what MIT just did. For a long time, they like many education...

By Commander Salamander, USN ret | CDR Salamander Substack One of the fun things about our Diversity Thursday visits over...

By CDR Salamander | CDR Salamander Substack If you think the DEI problem has gone out of control in our educational...

The Commander’s analysis is worth reading, especially Part III to understand the good news and the bad news and what...

By Commander Salamander This is one of those DivThu that could be a, in a word, tome. As such, I am only going to pull a...

By CDR Salamander For decades, and for the best of reasons at least in the beginning, the US military and its educational...

From CDR Salamander’s Substack: Action at last. Change can come suddenly and then all at once. This DivThu, let’s dig...