Guests:

• Matthew Paxton, president of the Shipbuilders Council of America;
• Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va.;
• Ret. Navy Capt. Brent Sadler, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation;
• And Ret. Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.

Sources and additional reading:

• Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans: Background and Issues for Congress (PDF);
• U.S. Navy budget materials;
• "Navy adds $1B to unconventional effort to boost sub production," by Lauren Williams, reporting Sept. 2024;
• Defense Department's 2024 Defense Industrial Base strategy;
• And "Restoring Our Maritime Strength: An agenda for the next president’s first hundred days," by Brent Sadler and Jerry Hendrix, writing in the National Review in late October.