The Allied State of Play at Sea with Kori Schake - on Midrats
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From moving grain to the world markets from the Black Sea to global trade through the Red Sea, and the People’s Republic of China’s unabashed bullying of The Philippines and the nations surrounding the South China Sea – the US Navy is not large enough to carry the burden of maintaining the international order at sea.
We have a series of alliances with most of the top-10 maritime powers on the globe, but are they being effectively harnessed toward maintaining this order?
Returning to Midrats to discuss these and related topics in a wide-ranging conversation will be Kori Schake.
Kori leads the foreign and defense policy team at the American Enterprise Institute. She is the author of Safe Passage: the Transition from British to American Hegemony, and a contributing writer at the Atlantic, War on the Rocks, and Bloomberg.
They do...just not in the USN. Not even a person like Nimitz would survive long. We get fools like Austin now.... This is one big reason recruitment is crumbling right now.
As our kind host points out regularly a guy like Stephen Decatur would probably not
last a week in our woke navy.
Very sobering when you see his skills as a leader of others and cool headed tactician in an age of paper orders and signal flags. He also had light years more able political leadership. "Thousands for defence, not a farthing for tributes"...