Captain Jim Fennell

And then they've expanded their naval operations beyond the first and second island chain.

into the Indian Ocean, into the Mediterranean, into the Baltic.

They were held up a bit with COVID, but they're back and they're raging again.

And their military growth is exponential.

They're building five to nine times as many ships as we do.

They have the industrial capacity to do that.

And they have a very, very capable anti-ship cruise missile system.

fleet and anti-ballistic missile fleet in terms of supersonic and hypersonic weapons that are designed specifically to sink the U.S.

Pacific fleet in the Western Pacific and essentially do what the Japanese tried to do to us on 7 December 1941 in Pearl Harbor.

Well, he has definitely set the agenda in this first year with creating the Office of Shipbuilding in the White House.

And then what we just saw released here with the National Security Strategy, National Defense Strategy in December and January here.

And then just in this last weekend, there was also released

yesterday, the American Maritime Action Plan, which was what the Office of Shipbuilding was tasked to do.

And they've come out with a plan with four pillars to rebuild America's shipbuilding industry and our merchant marine fleet and our naval fleet.

And so there's an actual plan that's been put together by really smart people.

And they're not just putting pie in the sky, but they're applying

They know where the resources are and what resources need to be acquired and how to re-transform the way we build ships from high intensity human involvement to more AI and robotics.

There's a lot of work left to be done.

So I'll withhold judgment until I actually see the 600 ships that we say that we wanna have both manned and unmanned.

It's actually over 500, but it's a great plan.