Common Sense Defense
The Common Sense Defense Podcast allows defense policy to be accessible, relatable, and easily understandable for the common everyday person. Defense Priority - Our first priority is helping our Navy remain viable and increasingly lethal while it freezes the decommissioning of key platforms and builds additional naval combatants above current projections to deter the PRC’s global ambitions. Process - The Common Sense Defense Podcast compliments the book, China Rising: The Case for Containment which gives information about increasing the deterrence value of our Navy and the Common Sense Defense Podcast presents actions that can be taken by everyday Americans to increase the size of our Naval Battle Force as well as to enhance the efficiency of our National Defense.
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Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
This Episode of Common Sense Defense will be discussing the ethos of everyday Americans and our desire to create a safer future for our children and grandchildren. We will be looking at the Ukraine and Taiwan as lessons.
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Thursday Sep 22, 2022
Episode One of Common Sense Defense is an overview of the scope and impact the everyday citizen can have on Defense Policy if proper time is taken to review the details. This Episode will review how, possessing an outside-of-the-beltway way of thinking will insert a degree of practicality to defense related issues over traditional inside-the-beltway thinking.
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
Tuesday Aug 23, 2022
This introductory episode is setting the foundation for Common Sense Defense, it's purpose and impact for national defense discourse by empowering the everyday person with the tools to understand and impact defense policy.
China Rising: The Case for Containment
Explore what action the United States and its allies can take to address the rapid militarization of the South China Sea by the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) and other military services.
Extract
China Rising: The Case For Containment focuses on developing a multi-domain approach to the defense structure in the Indo-Pacific region by offering modifications to current and future weapons systems development and deployment. It also provides pragmatic counters to the PLAN’s man-made islands, hypersonic weapons, aircraft, ships, and submarine forces. China Rising, The Case For Containment is divided into three sections: History & Policy, Technology and War, and The Economics of War. Each section takes a different approach to Chinese militarism and actions the US and its Allies can utilize to create interlocking systems to present a more efficient approach to contain China’s rapid rise.
Common Sense Defense
The Common Sense Defense Podcast is where defense policy is accessible, relatable and can be understood by the common everyday person.
Our first project is helping our Navy to remain viable and increasingly lethal over the next decade as it restructures.
The issue currently before Congress is the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act which slates 24 Naval Combatants to be cut from our fleet. This reduction directly impacts our nation’s ability to carry out global responsibilities and provide ample national defense. Having already cut back over 10 ships in the 2022 NDAA and projecting to cut even more ships in FY 2024 our Navy is in an emergency situation!
By FY 2024, despite congressional efforts to save some of the FY 2023 NDAA cuts, the U.S. navy will be looking at a battle force between the high 270's and low 280's against China’s 355 and Russia’s 220 plus naval combatants. With both strategic competitors doing joint naval exercises, sharing intelligence, and forging closer militarily ties, we can only expect more strategic collaboration in the future which will present substantial challenges to our global operational footprint. It is not time deconstruct and decommission much of our navy it’s time - to Build Our Navy!