1/4: Sunk at the Pier: Crisis in the American Submarine Industrial Base - Jerry Hendrix, Sagamore Institute. American Affairs Journal
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🗓️ 24 May 2024
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https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/05/sunk-at-the-pier-crisis-in-the-american-submarine-industrial-base/
"Across my career as a naval officer, entering as an ensign in 1988 and retiring as a captain in 2014, and then as a consultant to both government and industry since, I have watched the American submarine fleet fall precipitously from its Cold War high of 140 nuclear-powered “boats” to less than half that number, sixty-seven boats, today. More\xadover, of the current sixty-seven nuclear submarines, only forty-nine fall into the hunter-killer “fast attack” classification."
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| 0:00.0 | This is CBS I on the World with John Bachelor. |
| 0:10.0 | Here's John Bachelor. |
| 0:12.0 | The First Cold War ended with the Soviet Union disintegrating. |
| 0:16.0 | And at that point, the Soviet fleet was either mothballed or rusted or abandoned. |
| 0:22.0 | However, since then there's been the... both |
| 0:23.3 | and rusted or abandoned. However, since then there's been the rise of a new fleet |
| 0:26.0 | the People's Republic of China's PLA Navy, a vast construction |
| 0:31.7 | that is now conjoined with the Soviet fleet, |
| 0:35.9 | mermaid as the Russian Federation fleet, |
| 0:38.5 | in the Black Sea, in the Baltic, in the Pacific. |
| 0:42.8 | Those two fleets together are no longer contenders. |
| 0:46.3 | They are a liars. |
| 0:48.6 | And I welcome Captain Sherry Hendrix. |
| 0:52.0 | He is a senior fellow at the Sagamore Institute. He's a retired U.S. Navy Captain, an |
| 0:57.4 | aviator. Publishing in the American Affairs |
| 1:05.0 | General of the Summer Edition about the American Submarine Industrial Base, |
| 1:06.0 | the American Submarine as an answer to an overwhelming advantage |
| 1:11.0 | that our adversaries now possess spanning the Eurasian World Island, from the Arctic |
| 1:17.8 | to the Baltic to the Black Sea to the Mediterranean to the Indo-Pacific, including the North Atlantic, the famous Greenland UK Gap. |
| 1:27.0 | All of that is now under the control of an alliance that we just saw demonstrate its authority in Beijing when |
| 1:35.0 | Vladimir Putin went to Shijin-Ping and they talked about no limits. |
| 1:41.0 | Jerry, a very good evening to you. |
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