Award for editing. And congratulations on that, which is a prestigious award for editing in challenging circumstance voices. So congratulations on that. And we appreciate you being here. Hes also one of the few journalists that have had a large amount of firsthand experience going to see on ships, going out and watching naval forces operate and practice their their work. Most recently, he was up in norway, even with the marines looking at what the marines were doing up there as part of the expansion of expedition or advanced base operations. So a wide ranging of experience both practical and as a reporter. So were really happy to have mike here tonight to talk about his new book, heavy metal, which is about the hard days and nights of the Shipyard Workers who build the americas super carriers. To talk a little bit about that tonight, but thank you very much for being here. We appreciate it. My pleasure. Thanks for having me. So to start with, i wanted to ask you kind of a big overarchi
Time. She also taught in the Political Science department at the Us Naval Academy and has been a candidate for both the u. S. House and senate. Its really a pleasure to welcome you amy and to have you join brookings very own Michael O Hanlon the defense analysts, analysts, author of articles and books and numbers that are way too high for me to count. And of course the philip h. Knight chair in defense and strategy. A reminder to our audience that you can send questions to events at brookings. E d. U. Throughout. And thanks to those of you who have already done so. In march 2020 commandant of the u. S. Marine corps. General david h. Berger released force design 2030. His plan to match the capabilities of the marine corps to what he understands to be the work that the nation will need the marines to do in the contemporary operating environment. General berger and his staff describe f. D. 2030 is being directly responsive to the 2018 and 2022 National Defense strategies which instruct th
Mission in the fa18 and completed three combat deployments before continuing her service as an advisor to the u. S. House of representatives Armed Services committee, working at the state department and also earning a masters degree in International Security from Johns Hopkins university. As though that werent enough to make many of us wonder what weve been doing with our own time. She also taught in the Political Science department at the Us Naval Academy and has been a candidate for both the u. S. House and senate. Its really a pleasure to welcome you amy and to have you join brookings very own Michael O Hanlon the defense analysts, analysts, author of articles and books and numbers that are way too high for me to count. And of course the philip h. Knight chair in defense and strategy. A reminder to our audience that you can send questions to events at brookings. E d. U. Throughout. And thanks to those of you who have already done so. In march 2020 commandant of the u. S. Marine corp
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Admiral Michael Gilday discusses the threat the u. S. Faces from china and the need for the navy to invest in technology. He also talked about Navy Recruitment a fruits efforts through social media. I have heard brent is a great honor and published the work of the day the chief of Naval Operations come as a very interesting period in our nations history we are facing unprecedented risks right now with an ongoing war in ukraine to set the context for a threat in a decade that could be very perilous. Especially when you look at what is happening the last few weeks around taiwan in the western pacific china. This will be a very contested decade. Navy, has been for generations the preeminent deterrence wars of the United States force 79 states and has made of the night states maintaining peace for generations. This will be for the navigation plan, a term owners are from mariners are familiar with. In this case course of the future of the navy as we move forward in the decade. We will focus