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2/2: USNAVY: Commercial ship-building to support the fleet. Jerry Hendrix, Sagamore Institute

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 14 February 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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2/2: USNAVY: Commercial ship-building to support the fleet. Jerry Hendrix, Sagamore Institute
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/chinas-shipyards-are-ready-for-a-protracted-war-americas-arent-d6f004dd?mod=wknd_pos1&mod=wknd_pos1

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preparing for the battle that would be for the US Navy the shipyards.

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We do not have adequate shipyards now for the missions that Jerry just explicated for us.

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What is to be done?

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And I find in a recent Wall Street Journal article what appears to my landlubar eyes to be the beginning of a solution.

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This is Rear Admiral Thomas Anderson testifying to a congressional subcommittee May of last year.

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He says China benefits from a massive commercial shipbuilding workload.

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Clearly China's commercial shipbuilding industry provides

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them a massive advantage when it comes to capacity. Jerry if we endorse a big ship

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building push build up those yards for commercial ships.

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That would do it. We're not going to do that.

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Others have, however. There's India, there's South Korea, there's Italy.

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I believe the big yards of Trieste build these magnificent

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cruise ships. What is preventing us from using commercial shipyards to supplement our naval shipyards and build fast.

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Well, John, first of all, I've been advocating for the better part of a year now for a

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ships act here in the United States,

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