Mark Montgomery

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397 appearances 8 recordings 3 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 29 Aug

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The President's Daily Brief · The PDB Situation Report | August 29th, 2026: Iran’s Plan to Push the U.S. Navy Out of Hormuz & China Upgrades Russia’s Shaheds · 29 Aug 2026 podcast

I guess we're at six months right now.

But here's where it is at nine months.

Here's where it is at 12.

And this thing gets exponentially worse.

The when you go past 12 months, then 15, then 18, you really start to fall off a cliff on your future readiness.

And you walk the president through that and then you go see the president.

And with as much protection as possible around him, uniform, military, the Secretary of Defense delivers this and says, look,

This is the trade off.

If we continue operations like this, which is what we're recommending to do for a blockade plus defending the southern route, plus being ready to strike if we need to, we need this force level.

Here's all the mitigation we do.

A little bit extra money here, pull back this European deployment, pull back this Asia deployment, you know, be less ready around the world and other places.

We can make it so it's not so bad two, three years from now.

But in no matter what we do, here's the damage that happens if we keep this up nine months, twelve months, fifteen months, eighteen months.

Those kind of briefs have happened to people like President Obama.

President Trump in Trump 45, you know, when you've had extended deployments doing things.

It should have happened to him when we did all that Southcom, you know, with USS Ford and Southcom and other and all the ships that went down there, you know, um prior to the Maduro uh uh um uh uh extraction.

Um I don't think it happened then, and then we pivoted right into Iran.

And I really don't think they've had that discussion.

I believe this is a tough one to deliver.

Um and I don't think that the President's getting this because I think he'd he would be

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