S8 Ep251: Guests: Captain James Fanell (USN Ret.) and Bradley Thayer. Fanell argues the U.S. must "admit failure" regarding China, likening the situation to a patient acknowledging cancer to begin treatment. To combat "threat deflation" and institutional bias in in
The John Batchelor Show
John Batchelor
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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1941 IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY ATTACKING PEARL HARBOR
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| 0:35.2 | This is CBSI in the world. |
| 0:37.2 | I'm John Batchel. |
| 0:38.2 | I'm visiting with two authors, James Finnell and Bradley Thayer. |
| 0:42.0 | Their new book is Embracing Communist China, America's greatest strategic failure. |
| 0:47.1 | Failure is important here because admitting failure is a challenge for everyone, |
| 0:52.2 | but especially as I learned from Jim and Brad, the U.S. Navy. |
| 0:58.3 | Jim, I come to you because you're a veteran of intelligence gathering at the U.S. Navy and analysis, |
| 1:05.7 | strategic analysis, and in what is to be done about the Chinese Communist Party's aggression against Taiwan, |
| 1:14.8 | against the Western Pacific, against the United States for world supremacy. |
| 1:18.8 | The first thing is to admit failure. |
| 1:21.3 | Let's be specific. |
| 1:22.7 | The intelligence community at the Navy to admit failure. |
| 1:25.9 | Are they ready to do that? |
| 1:27.0 | Have they started walking in that direction, Jim? |
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