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 blockbuster announcement this week of a new multinational deal for Australia to buy and build nuclear-powered attack submarines caught much of the naval world by surprise, and there are many more questions than answers at this point. We’ll be joined by our colleague Vago Muradian to discuss some of the many aspects of this deal, which involves and affects Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, France and most importantly, China.

In this Week’s Squawk Chris Servello comments on the United States' need to up its game .

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