Strategy for Facing the Chinese & Russian Threat, with Brent Sadler - on Midrats
looking for the right response
By 2030, the People's Republic of China is expected to have a navy of 425 warships, up significantly from their 360 today - already larger than the United States Navy. In spite of her struggles ashore, demographic collapse, and structural deficiencies, the Russian Navy still maintains a significant submarine force.
While the world's strategic situation has changed dramatically, it isn't something not seen. For fits and starts for over a decade, the US has tried to address the change in a cohesive manner, but in 2023, everyone is still looking for the right response.
This Sunday for the full hour this Sunday from 5-6pm Eastern our guest returning to Midrats will be, Brent Sadler, Captain, USN (Ret.), senior research fellow at The Heritage Foundation, to discuss the issues he raises in his recent book, U.S. Naval Power in the 21st Century: A New Strategy for Facing the Chinese and Russian Threat.
Brent Sadler served twenty-six-year in the Navy with numerous operational tours on nuclear powered submarines and has been a member of personal staffs of senior defense department leaders and was a military diplomat in Asia.
I'm in a funk today... Maybe this year.
We don't have a coherent national defense strategy, coherent ppbe alignment, a focused administration, a competent GO/FO/SES cohort.
We either need to decide we have existential competition, or develop a serious diplomatic corps. Then put energy behind our decision.
Fussing around the middle will not work.
None are so blind as those who refuse to see.