#USN: #RedSea: What is to be done? Jerry Hendrix, Sagamore Institute.
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🗓️ 22 December 2023
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#USN: #RedSea: What is to be done? Jerry Hendrix, Sagamore Institute.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-naval-deterrence-is-going-going-maybe-even-gone-iran-houthi-attacks-red-sea-097cf61f?mod=commentary_article_pos7
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| 0:39.3 | I'm John Bachelor with my colleague Captain Jerry Hendricks, the United States Navy retired an aviator, Senior Fellow at the Sagamore Institute, gives you a taste of the challenge. The hand to provide and maintain a Navy why naval primacy is America's first best strategy. |
| 0:56.0 | Yes, we need welders. Yes, we need we need shipyards. We need all of that, but at the end of Jerry's book he gives the very bold idea |
| 1:06.1 | of how this navy can be improved to maintain peace around the world and it comes |
| 1:11.4 | down to frigates and attack submarines. Why Jerry? |
| 1:16.3 | Well the thing about it is you know the nation the Navy has essentially two major |
| 1:21.0 | missions I almost think of them as the ends of an old-fashioned bar belt. |
| 1:25.2 | You have the day-to-day preserve the peace mission where you're out and about being the |
| 1:30.1 | cop on the beat, upholding the global economic order that we've spent the last 70 years establishing, |
| 1:36.4 | essentially the concept of the free seas and free trade. |
| 1:39.9 | That mission, you best served by a |
| 1:43.0 | surface combatant that's out there. |
| 1:45.1 | It is essentially that cop on the beat walking around the neighborhood. |
| 1:48.5 | That mission can be best served by a frigate force. |
| 1:52.0 | Something that's a smaller vessel that can be purchased in |
| 1:55.4 | larger numbers, you know adequately armed but certainly not the high-end top-end |
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