Gauging America's Military Readiness

The Bill Bennett Show

Bill Bennett

News, Government

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Bill spoke with Bing West about America's current military readiness and capabilities to defend the country, threats posed by China and recruitment struggles. Bing West is a former Assistant Secretary of Defense and combat Marine. He's also a New York Times bestselling author. His latest book is "The Last Platoon: A Novel of the Afghanistan War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Well, welcome to the Bill Bennett show.
0:03.0	We expose the existential threats to America and discuss the news of the day focused today
0:08.5	on Taiwan and how to handle it.
0:12.0	And boy, I think this is brilliant, not by me, but by being West.
0:15.8	He joins us today as a former Assistant Secretary of Defense from Ronald Reagan, and he is
0:20.4	a combat Marine.
0:21.4	And he's also a New York Times best-selling author.
0:23.9	His latest book, The Last Platoon, a novel of the Afghanistan War.
0:28.1	The Navy.
0:29.1	First of all, do we have the Navy we need right now?
0:32.4	Physically, in terms of the ships, et cetera, they are in dire strikes, and they need more
0:41.2	ships.
0:42.2	They just need a larger budget period.
0:44.5	In terms of the morale, you know, because fight the way you are and great faith and confidence
0:54.3	in the submarine, cruise, great faith and confidence in pilots and very mixed message
1:01.4	about the surface line force and whether it has confidence and zest that it needs.
1:10.4	What's the surface line force?
1:11.8	The ship guys, guys on the ships?
1:13.8	Happy the destroyers and the crew, yes.
1:16.8	Okay.
1:17.8	Okay.
1:18.8	Underwater, you're confident in the subs and up in the air, the pilot's good, right?
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