CAVASShips

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. SNA Day One…We interview retired Navy Captain Mark Vandroff, Chief Executive Officer of Fincantieri Marinette Marine. During our discussion Mark reviews the current programs underway, the capita...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week...What goes into developing the Naval Mind? That’s the topic of a new book by Benjamin Armstrong and John Freymann that looks into the multi-faceted process of producing a naval profes...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…from the high seas to the littorals to the dreaded territory inside the Beltway, the U S Navy and the sea services continue to deploy, patrol, fly, sail, operate, plan, train and …. bu...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…the general appearance of the US Navy’s ships has become – for better or worse -- a routine topic discussed by a variety of commentators, reporters and observers. It is widely agreed t...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…We’re all familiar with the supply chain issues affecting much of our daily lives – from the grocery store to electronics to trying to buy a new car. In terms of being a customer relyi...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…Tuesday December 7 marks the 80th anniversary of the 1941 Japanese attack on the US Fleet at Pearl Harbor. The surprise attack caught a fleet in harbor just waking up to start its Sund...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…when US Marines were needed in Afghanistan this year they were able to get on the scene quickly because they were already in theater, aboard US Navy amphibious ships deployed in the re...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week...The Navy’s announced it had settled on an engineering fix for the long-standing problems with the Freedom-class littoral combat ships. We’ll talk about some of the things the Navy sa...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…With a unique location on Pennsylvania Avenue smack dab in the heart of the Nation’s Capital, the U.S. Navy Memorial is a very public reminder of the legacy and importance of those who...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…The Chinese Navy is now the world’s largest, with 355 ships. That’s according to the latest edition of the Pentagon’s annual report on Chinese military power – a document full of examp...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week...As the Arctic continues to warm more and more of the polar region is becoming navigable and open to shipping for longer periods. Russia is actively developing its 15,000-mile Arctic...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…Fifteen months after the disastrous fire aboard the USS BONHOMME RICHARD the US Navy finally released its investigation into the matter. The report is scathing in its recitation of dep...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…lessons from the past are often guidelines to the present. Just over a century ago the British Royal Navy got rid of huge numbers of old ships to reinvest in a more modern fleet. How d...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week…the submarine CONNECTICUT hit something last week and a number of sailors were injured. We’ll take a look at what might be going on with the always-mysterious Seawolf-class sub. And wh...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This Week...the US Navy’s littoral combat ships have begun leaving service, far short of their planned service lives, and more are likely to follow. It’s a remarkable situation, where some ships...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week, if there’s any one thing each one of us shares, it’s the need for sleep. The need for truly restful sleep – and the lack of getting enough it – has become a core issue for the US Navy...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week, the blockbuster announcement this week of a new multinational deal for Australia to buy and build nuclear-powered attack submarines caught much of the naval world by surprise, and the...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. The world’s prosperity of the past 75 years is largely due to the US Navy’s success in keeping the oceans safe for commerce, argues the author of a new book. But he also warns of the dangers the...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…the House and Senate armed services committees have approved big increases in the number of new ships to buy and in the Pentagon’s overall budget. But where’s the money? Will the appro...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…Rumors about the Pentagon’s budget plans for the Navy do not sound good. We talk with CDR Issac Harris, a destroyer captain about his recent experiences getting his ship through a majo...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…US forces again are headed to Haiti to try and help in the aftermath of another devastating earthquake. We talk with a veteran of several humanitarian assistance/disaster relief missio...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…does the US Navy have the right idea about how it uses and deploys its forces? One group of naval analysts thinks the whole fleet structure should be redefined. We’ll discuss. And how...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…strategy and concepts. Speeches and presentation panels. Ships and aircraft and radars and missiles and drones and sensors and torpedoes and well, you get the picture. We talk about th...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…a great naval aviator met an untimely end earlier this week. we’ll be talking with a special guest who knew and flew with Dale “Snort” Snodgrass. We also preview the Navy League's Sea,...

Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…a discussion with Richard Scott, one of Britain’s leading naval correspondents about the Royal Navy’s new Queen Elizabeth-class carriers, the first of which is now leading an internati...