Nov 27, 2024
Guests:
- Matthew Paxton, president of the Shipbuilders Council of America;
- Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va.;
- Ret. Navy Capt. Brent Sadler, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation;
- And Ret. Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Sources and additional reading:
- Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans: Background and Issues for Congress (PDF);
- U.S. Navy budget materials;
- "Navy adds $1B to unconventional effort to boost sub production," by Lauren Williams, reporting Sept. 2024;
- Defense Department's 2024 Defense Industrial Base strategy;
- And "Restoring Our Maritime Strength: An agenda for the next president’s first hundred days," by Brent Sadler and Jerry Hendrix, writing in the National Review in late October.