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Sea Power was the secret.

Sea power was the secret of the Phoenicians, the Greeks, even the land lover Romans when they took the upper hand against Carthage.

More recently, which isn't hard, the British Empire was one on the seas with tall ships. But how much Navy is enough Navy and can a smaller, lighter,

more advanced fleet do the job? Joining us today to talk about the future of the US Navy is Dr. Jerry Hendricks.

Hendrix served 26 years in the Navy and retired a captain.

He is now a vice president at Telemus Group, a Strategic Consultancy.

Thank you so much for joining us.

Oh, it's my pleasure to be here,

and I'm looking forward to this conversation.

I'm going to start with the most basic question

you can imagine, but I don't think it's something people

think about very much, which is, what's a Navy traditionally been for?

So that's a great question because you know a navies were born very basically to protect the trade of their mother nation.

So navies come into being the idea of converting a ship, which probably previously have been carrying

trade or cargo or something, putting guns on board it and then putting it to sea, was essentially

to thwart piracy on the high seas and protect that trade because

seaborne trade was found to be not a detrimental increase in a nation's power and wealth.

It was actually an exponential growth

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