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This is CBSI on the world. I'm John Batchel. Gordon Chang at Gordon G. Chang is with me,

and we're very pleased to welcome Rebecca Grant, Vice President of the Lexington Institute.

Rebecca, the headline that needs interpretation, Fort Drum shows how states can push back on China's maritime aggression, concentrating on the South China Sea and something called Maritime Outposts. Please translate for us. Thank you.

Because the South China Sea, as we know, is one of the most highly contested regions in the world, as the article points out.

And the problem is China uses a gray zone strategy.

That's everything from harassment with their so-called coast guard to building up little fortified reefs.

And it's not big enough to launch major forces, but it's a long-term problem of how to push back against China and then how to put together a network of defenses and censor fusion to

complicate China's tactical problem and allow the Philippines or other

allies to impose costs rapidly on any aggressive moves by China.

This points to an historical fact of Fort Drum at the entrance of Manila Harbor

more than a century ago where the U.S. and the United States, of Fort Drum at the entrance of Manila Harbor,

more than a century ago,

where the U.S. and its allies built a non-sinkable battleship with 14-inch guns, making it a hard target, Manila Bay.

That was true for the bulk of the time that it existed, but that was not true in

1941, the pitiful, because they're a change in tactics by the Japanese, but in any event,

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