Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…we build on our conversations about navigation plans and shipbuilding and discuss how to pay for a larger and more capable fleet. Is the old way of doing business still effective or should we look for new and creative ways to grow the Fleet? We will discuss in our next segment.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week… we are just back from a visit to some of the key shipyards on the US Gulf Coast – and what we saw was truly eye-opening. No one we visited is standing pat, all are investing in significant upgrades. We’ll talk about the trip in detail with our traveling partner, Sam LaGrone of USNI News.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week… a special edition of the CavasShips podcast, as we spent most of the week visiting shipyards on the Gulf Coast. Over the next few weeks we will share interviews and observations from our trip. On this episode we talk to Austal USA’s Rusty Murdaugh after spending a day in Mobile touring the yard with his team. In our closing we remember Surface Warfare legend CAPT Paul X. Rinn, USN (ret) who passed away this week.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Mike Gilday’s updated Navigation Plan for the Navy was released on July 26 complete with a new fleet vision for 2045. Navalist and friend of the pod Bryan McGrath joins us to review the plan.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…How should the US respond to the seemingly never-ending rise of China’s Navy? A new effort to focus on Chinese naval and maritime expansion is underway, sponsored by the US Naval Institute’s PROCEEDINGS magazine. Project originator Hunter Stires and veteran analyst Brent Sadler will join us to bore into the issue.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…Russia’s war on Ukraine drags on, and its pernicious effects on the world economy – particularly the devastating loss of grain from Ukraine – are growing ever worse. What are the chances ships loaded with Ukrainian grain will get moving again, and what are the risks of an active NATO and American intervention to make that happen? Sal Mercogliano  and John Konrad help us dive deep into these issues.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…the launch of China’s new aircraft carrier FUJIAN on June 22 gave the world its first clear look at what China hopes will be a game-changer for its burgeoning navy. But what are we really looking at? What is the significance of this new ship and what China wants to do with it? Noted naval strategists Jerry Hendrix and Patrick Cronin join us to bore in on China’s strategies and how the US should be responding.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…our guest this week is Emma Salisbury, a British PHD Candidate who argues in a recent War on the Rocks piece that when looking at how naval planning fits with future requirements, it is important to think about two key concepts: the military-industrial complex and innovation. 

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…it was a key week for the 2023 defense budget as several Capitol Hill committees moved their versions forward through the Congressional budget process. And while ships, aircraft and of course money get the most attention, a number of policy adjustments also are in those bills. We’ll talk with one key congressman, Mike Gallagher, about a provision he authored that could affect the peacetime role of the U.S. Navy.

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Welcome to the CavasShips Podcast with Christopher P. Cavas and Chris Servello…a weekly podcast looking at naval and maritime events and issues of the day – in the US, across the seas and around the world. This week…t’s been five years since seven sailors were killed when the US Navy destroyer FITZGERALD collided with a Japanese cargo ship, an incident closely followed by another collision between the US destroyer JOHN S McCAIN and a merchant ship that killed 10 sailors. Major recriminations followed. But has it made any difference? We’ll talk it over with veteran journalist Sam LaGrone of USNI News.

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