Sen. Cotton has 'real doubts' about US Navy's ability to defeat China in battle
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Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., expressed concerns about the U.S. Navy's ability to take on China in battle, Tuesday, on the heels of a new military report detailing a culture of bureaucracy that has shifted away from warfighting. Cotton joined “America Reports” to discuss the study that he helped commission.
It's true that we've allowed China to steal a march on us that relates especially shipbuilding. China has been engaged in a massive shipbuilding campaign. We need to do more of that in the United States as well. We need to build more ships, we need a larger Navy. But just as important is how we train our sailors, especially our leaders, on those ships. And this report shows that in some cases, surface warfare officers were simply given 23 DVDs and sent out to the fleet and told [to] read these in your spare time to get trained. We would never do that to a Navy aviator, we would never do it to a Navy nuclear engineer. We shouldn't be doing it to our surface warfare officers either. They deserve a lot better, and the sailors they lead deserve a lot better as well. WATCH THE ENTIRE INTERVIEW BELOW:More Related News