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Morning, glory.

I'm Hugh Hewitt.

That music means Dr. Larry Arne is in the house.

The Hillsdale Dialogue is underway.

We are at the end of chapter nine of this book, The Gathering Storm, about to lurch into chapters 10 and 11, but I wanted

to return to something I mentioned in passing last week, Dr. Arn. I found it, which is that

the Brits were building all these radar things that we talked about,

because Churchill had insisted to Baldwin, my experience in these matters,

when the need is fully explained by the military and political authorities,

science is always able to provide something.

I don't know if that's good to say out loud to the American people right now or bad,

because we overly rely on science.

I think that's why we have less than 300 ships because they're all so deadly.

And Admiral Stavridis used to be on the program every week until he signed the CNN all he said,

quantity has a quality all of its own.

So we have a qualitative edge in everything, but they have a quantitative edge in almost everything.

What do you think about that?

Well, I think about that the way I think about everything else.

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