We are extremely good at what we're doing, but our enemies are not sitting tight. And they are trying to get better, and they are trying to accelerate. And my view is We need to prevent a war, and by preventing a war, we need to get shipbuilding back up. We need to be able to sustain it. And that's something that, you know, that we really need to get better at. (23:24–23:28)
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Asserts that increasing shipbuilding capacity is necessary to prevent a war.
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