This is a CBSI and the world. I'm John Batche with my friend and colleague Jerry Hendrix, Senior Fellow

Sagamore Institute, Retired U.S. Navy Naviator, and the author most recently of

the American Affairs Journal Summer Edition sunk at the pier, crisis in the American

submarine industrial base.

We've established that we don't have enough of anything.

However, what is the threat larger than ever?

The theory is that the Chinese Communist Party directing the People's Liberation Army Navy said,

play possum, hide your strength until and then and that's where we are today. We're into the

until and then part. The strength is no longer hidden. What is the advantage the

People's Liberation Army Navy has?

It's not in gunboats. It's not in the quietness of their submarines.

It's not in their sort of adequate anti-submarine warfare.

It's in their shipyards.

Jerry, their shipyards.

Did we know that the shipyards that were turning out containers

could turn out submarines?

Did we understand that we were being fooled?

Well we should have known because that's the way that we used to do things.

You know if you study the writings of Mahan or Corbett, you understand that

sea power is much more than just Navy ships and surface combatants, that in fact it is a nation's commercial fleet and perhaps even more

important than that the shipyards that produce those ships. China understood when we opened the door in 1981 when we cut subsidies for

commercial shipbuilding that we were going to seed a part of a very important

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