This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchelor.

The United States Navy in the 21st century. Right now, we're looking at crises around the world

and what is to be done. A new article at the Atlantic Monthly,

America's Future is at Sea,

by Captain Jerry Hendricks,

United States Navy Aviator retired at the Sagamore Institute,

tells the story of inadequacy,

inadequacy today, inadequacy tomorrow,

and how soon that can be filled will determine the ability of the U.S. to contend in the Indo-Pacific against the rising power of the People's Republic of China and the Atlantic

and the considerable sting capable of the Russian Navy with their submarines warfare and especially with their ability

to enter into the Atlantic and to roam in a fashion that takes them up to the continental United

States. Jerry, a very good evening to you. Congratulations for your peace in the Atlantic. It's

historically well-founded. I want to begin with the problems, though.

The problems that the Navy has around the world that, my understanding, cannot now be answered by the fleet extant.

We begin with the problem most immediately in the North Atlantic, because that dates back to the Cold War of the 20th century. What is the gap and what does it mean

that the U.S. Navy needs to fill the gap coming out of the North, coming out of the Russian fleet

in the north? Good evening to you. Good evening, John. So the gap that you're referring to is the Greenland,

Iceland, Iceland, United Kingdom

gap, the GIUK gap. And, you know, and we're really talking about two gaps. We're talking about

the geo-strategic gap of that transit straight, where the Russians come down out of their bases

in the high north to penetrate down into the Atlantic during the Cold War and now increasingly

today we're concerned about their ability to bring their high technology submarines.

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