Getting the Navy Back to Ready Will Cost Tens of Billions

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

With just over 270 ships doing the work intended to be done by more than 350, the U.S. Navy is stretched thin enough for the seams to show. In order to keep enough ships at sea, training is getting short shrift, and so is sleep. And that means accidents, some of which have been deadly.

What’s to be done about it? Dave Majumdar of National Interest shares a few suggestions, but none of them come cheap.

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0:19.0	Frankly, we're just overusing these people. I mean, there's only so much you can push people before they break and essentially we've done that throughout
0:24.7	the entire force.
0:26.7	You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the
0:39.2	front lines.
0:40.2	Here are your hosts, Matthew Galt and Jason Fields. Hello and I'm Matthew Gault.
0:56.0	Hello and welcome to War College.
0:58.0	I'm Jason Fields.
1:00.0	And I'm Matthew Gault.
1:01.0	Recent reports have shown there's a problem with the U.S. Navy.
1:04.7	Too many missions, not enough ships and sailors.
1:08.2	Ratings have suffered and it costs 17 lives last year because of accidents.
1:14.4	In separate incidents, two destroyers, the John McCain and the Fitzgerald
1:18.8	crashed with other ships.
1:21.4	Dave Majemdar is the defense editor for the national interest and he's here to help us
1:26.6	understand the state of the Navy.
1:29.0	Thanks for joining us.
1:30.0	Nice to be here.
1:31.9	Can we start off by just asking how dire is the situation for the Navy?
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