#USNavy: The number of ships at sea cannot guarantee the freedom of the seas. Jerry Hendrix, Sagamore Institute
The John Batchelor Show
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🗓️ 22 December 2023
⏱️ 16 minutes
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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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| 0:38.0 | CBSI and the world. I'm John Bachelor. The Freedom of the Seas, the United States Navy |
| 0:41.0 | they're synonymous, certainly since the end of the Second War. |
| 0:45.0 | However, I welcome Captain Jerry Hendrix, United States Navy retired aviator, |
| 0:50.0 | senior fellow of the Sagamore Institute, writing most recently at the Wall Street Journal |
| 0:55.9 | about the freedom of the seas and we go to an incident that is all over the news these last |
| 1:00.5 | hours, that is that the Red Sea is closed to many of the largest |
| 1:05.5 | container ship firms. They're routing around the Cape of Good Hope, lengthening |
| 1:10.5 | the voyage, costing everybody on board money, costing insurance for the |
| 1:17.0 | shippers, and the Red Sea itself now is no longer free. |
| 1:22.4 | The U.S. Navy has provided security. |
| 1:24.6 | U.S. Carney, for example, brought down some drones and missiles that were thrown at |
| 1:28.9 | commercial ships some weeks ago. However, the gang in Yemen, led by a man named Al-Huthi, who's been on television |
| 1:37.4 | boasting and making threats to the US Navy, that gang has now qualified freedom. |
| 1:45.0 | Jerry, a very good evening to you. |
| 1:46.7 | The US Navy does its job, and right now they're gathering its forces with our allies. Britain and France are mentioned, there'll be others, to |
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