Donald J. Trump

I was in the Pentagon in 2010, my one year in the Pentagon, and I worked in the program office that dealt with UAVs, ScanEagle and other platforms like that, the new UCAB that we have.

So we've been, I think he's right, we've been behind.

We need to go faster.

There's going to be some kind of issue with the distances, the distances across the Pacific.

You're not going to be able to fly some of these small wire guided drones, you know, from a destroyer or a small ship to 2000 miles away from China and be able to be effective.

So we got to find ways to get these platforms in close and get them integrated into what we call distributed maritime operations network.

so that we can network all of our platforms, manned and unmanned.

So it is here to stay.

The question is, how is it going to be applicable to naval warfare?

And I'll just say, in my experience watching the Pentagon and the intelligence community transition from fighting war at land in Afghanistan and Iraq and applying that to the naval maritime

Robert V Jones, domain it's not just a simple cut and paste it has to be completely rethought there's different atmospherics there's different.

Robert V Jones, You know sensitivities to salt and see water and duration at sea and repair and all of that kind of stuff that has to be looked at.

Robert V Jones, And I know that folks like Captain Morgan are all about that so we've got people looking at it, we just need to accelerate it needs to be part of this.

restoration of this make america's navy great again we need to restore and do what we did in 1940 to focus on building our navy and it's not going to be the navy of 1940 where we just pumped out you know destroyers and jeep carriers and carriers it's going to be the new navy of the 21st century but we have to make it a national priority i think that's the message that i want to get across

I'm going to give Admiral Mastin a second, but I want to continue that.

There were visionaries before Pearl Harbor.

They knew it was a gunfight coming, right?

I mean, the leaders of our country, they started preparing an army.

They started getting ready an army for a fight of war in Europe.

But particularly, there was a big fight inside the Navy because it was still you still had an aspect that was battle battleship centric.