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. This week…The temporary closure of the Port of Baltimore has shippers scrambling to fill the gaps – Derek Miller of the American Association of Port Authorities will be here to focus on that asp...

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 30-year shipbuilding plan, another shocking amphibious ship report, Gaza Bridge preps and more – Sam Lagrone of USNI News will be here to help us dive into all that and more!

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...Naval Aviation took some big hits in the latest US defense budget submission. Naval air analyst and veteran Ward Carroll will be here for his take on what is going up and down with N...

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, noted author and scholar Nicholas Lambert has a new book out where he dives into Mahan and lessons from Naval History. Be sure to check out friend of the pod Steve Deal's review of Ni...

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…Ship repair is a tough business, particularly when your primary customer is the US Navy. Changing business structures, shifts in homeport and potential workloads, variations in policy...

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…Bryan Clark of the Hudson Institute joins us to discuss his recent report on using unmanned forces to hedge against emerging challenges and threats.  Please send us feedback by DM’ing...

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 rise of artificial intelligence is dramatic, confusing and even frightening, and AI already is fundamentally changing the rules and methods of warfare. Professor Sam Tangredi is co...

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…There’s a lot going on around the US Navy and a lot to discuss. We’ll dive into some of those areas, including the Pentagon’s Replicator initiative and the possible long-term effects o...

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 talk fleet size, force posture and budget priorities with long-time defense thinker and author Mackenzie Eaglen of American Enterprise Institute. Please send us feedback by DM’ing @...

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…attracting and keeping officers and sailors to the US Navy’s surface fleet is a never-ending challenge. New executive director Christopher Bushnell of the Surface Navy Association is w...

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…there were more Houthi attacks on international shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, as well as counterattacks and preemptive strikes by the US and its allies–we discuss the lates...

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…It was a busy week for both of us at the Surface Navy Association’s 36th annual symposium just outside Washington DC. During the show we sat down with Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm...

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…One of the key companies crucial to the development and fielding autonomous surface vessels is Leidos. Two of that company’s top officials, Dave Lewis, senior vice president of the Mar...

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 Turkish Straits are the only way in and out of the Black Sea. The maritime traffic passing through this great strategic waterway of antiquity, running through the heart of Istanbul...

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…2023 in review. We’re joined by the entire gang from USNI News to look back at some of the biggest and most significant naval developments of the past year. Chief editor Sam LaGrone, 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…It’s been more than 70 years since the United States dropped from being the world’s largest producer of merchant shipping and the country’s maritime industry fell into a precipitous de...

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 several US destroyers seeing action recently in the Red Sea,   retired Navy Captain and former Cruiser and Destroyer commanding officer Dave Snee walks us through the challenges o...

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 traveled to Turkey to see up close how a government-owned company is building ships in the country’s biggest naval shipyard. We’ll talk with ASFAT’s chief executive about how his 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…noted naval analyst Bryan Clark is just back from attending the Indo-Pacific Symposium in Australia – which was also attended by the US Navy’s far-reaching Unmanned Surface Division On...

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…Everyone talks about how big a Navy the United States needs. Right after that is how much would such a Navy cost? There is no better expert on the topic of what the U.S. would spend on...

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 Pentagon’s annual report on Chinese Military Power was just released, and once again it is full of details about China’s continued military buildup. Naval analyst and long-time Chi...

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 littoral combat ship launches a powerful Standard SM-6 missile for the first time while another LCS shepherds the largest-ever deployment of unmanned surface vessels – all while 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…Fincantieri’s Marine Group of shipyards is not only building ships but it’s greatly expanded its facilities and ability to move into full-bore production of the US Navy’s new Constella...

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 U. S. Navy’s 248th Birthday seems a great time to check back with the U. S. Navy Memorial and the organization’s president and CEO, Retired US Navy Rear Admiral Frank Thorp, who wi...

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 is going on in the South China Sea? Sam LaGrone of USNI News joins us to discuss the first in a series of articles based on the seven-week trip this summer by reporter Mallory She...