452 | Jerry Hendrix: The Age of U.S. Naval Dominance Is Over

The Realignment

Technology, News Commentary, National Security, Marshall Kosloff, International Relations, News, Public Policy, Economics, Politics, Saager Enjeti, U.s. Politics, Policy

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dr. Jerry Hendrix, Senior Fellow at the Sagamore Institute and author of To Provide and Maintain: Why Naval Primacy Is America's First Best Strategy, joins The Realignment. Marshall and Jerry discuss the conflict with Yemen's Houthi rebels and a potential conflict in Asia through a naval lens, the case for increasing the size of the U.S. Navy, what a proper mix of carriers, aircraft, and drones in the fleet would look like, and the need to revitalize the defense industrial base.

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0:00.0	Marshall here, welcome back to the realignment.
0:02.8	Today's episode is all about the U.S. Navy and its past, present, and future challenges, especially through the lands of the current conflict in the Middle East,
0:16.7	with the Navy serving as the main means of reprisal against Hootie rebels, disrupting global shipping.
0:22.8	And then also, of course, a lot of focus on the possible conflict in the Indo-Pacific,
0:28.2	specifically relating to Taiwan, United States, and China.
0:32.4	My guest today is Dr. Jerry Hendrix. Taiwan, United States, and China.
0:32.6	My guest today is Dr. Jerry Hendrix.
0:35.1	Jerry is a retired Navy captain,
0:37.4	and he's done a lot of really impressive and really relevant writing
0:40.7	on the future of the US Navy and its current challenges. He's also written about another
0:44.7	subject, dear to my heart, the Arsenal Democracy, and what needs to be done to repair the United States
0:49.9	industrial base. Hope you all all enjoy this conversation and because
0:53.6	Jerry's written so much I've included a bunch of really great links to the folks
0:57.2	to check out below in the show notes. I hope you enjoy this conversation and a huge
1:01.4	thank you to the Foundation for supporting the work of this
1:05.2	podcast.
1:06.2	Jerry Hendricks, welcome to the Realignment. It's a great pleasure to be here and I'm looking forward to this conversation.
1:16.0	Yeah, I'm really looking forward to chatting with you.
1:19.0	You're very prolific, so I have a bunch of links to your writings and recent speeches you've given in the show notes.
1:26.2	I want to just start here in this broad conversation about the Navy by kind of defining the moment. You wrote a great and delivered a great speech titled a period of consequences.
1:36.8	This is back in 2022, but the whole point of a period is I think this will all will still apply to 2024.
1:42.8	So how about you just like start by introducing
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