Navel Gazers vs the Naval- Greater

Habakkuk 2

14 For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.

President Trump and War Secretary Pete Hegseth Make an Announcement - 4:30pm ET Livestream - The Last Refuge

"All aboard, sailors! Greenland, ho!"

Trump-Class Battleship Announced as U.S. Seeks to Compete With China’s Naval Expansion | The Gateway Pundit

The Morning Report 12/23/25 – cut.jib.newsletter

Trump’s ‘Make Shipbuilding Great Again’ Order Calls for Wholesale Overhaul of U.S. Maritime Industry - USNI News:

"The Trump administration wants a sweeping government-wide overhaul of the U.S. commercial and military maritime sectors in an effort to catch up to China’s unrivaled shipbuilding capacity, according to draft documents obtained by USNI News.

The draft of an executive order, dated Feb. 27, calls on administration officials to create a maritime action plan over the next six months to revamp the American maritime industry.

“The United States has always been a maritime nation, but today China’s shipbuilding sector has established a position of dominance in the global market through unfair non-market practices, creating over 200 times the capacity of the U.S. shipbuilding industry,” reads a draft White House fact sheet accompanying the draft order.

The order will create a new maritime industrial base office within the White House’s National Security Council to lead the effort. Trump announced the new office on Tuesday night during a joint address to Congress.

“To boost our defense industrial base, we are also going to resurrect the American shipbuilding industry, including commercial shipbuilding and military shipbuilding. And for that purpose, I am announcing tonight that we will create a new office of shipbuilding in the White House and offer special tax incentives to bring this industry home to America, where it belongs,” Trump said.

“We used to make so many ships. We don’t make them anymore very much, but we’re going to make them very fast, very soon. It will have a huge impact.”

Multiple cabinet secretaries – including the U.S. Trade Representative and the heads of the departments of Defense, Commerce, State, Transportation, and Homeland Security – have six months from when the EO is signed to provide Trump with the maritime action plan, according to the draft.

Key figures running the effort include Ian Bennitt, a former Capitol Hill staffer who is currently serving as a special assistant to the president and the senior director of maritime and industrial capacity, and Cameron Humphrey, another former Hill aide who is now the director of maritime and industrial capacity, according to their LinkedIn accounts.

The maritime action plan must include a wide range of items, including a probe into China’s “unfair targeting of maritime logistics, and shipbuilding sectors,” the creation of a maritime security trust fund that could put money toward a shipbuilding financial incentives program for the next nine years and the creation of maritime opportunity zones to promote shipbuilding investment.

“As the leading economic and geopolitical power in the world, the United States needs a flexible funding source – akin to but distinct from a sovereign wealth fund – that is capable of underwriting our affirmative vision,” reads a section in the EO about the trust fund. The proposal wants to use tariff and tax money to build up the fund.

The plan also calls on the Department of Homeland Security to impose the Harbor Maintenance Tax on foreign cargo and certify that carriers offloading foreign cargo in Mexico or Canada pay the relevant charges and another 10 percent fee, according to the executive order language." .......

While everyone else asked “How can we sell out our shipbuilding industry and enrich ourselves?”, Donald Trump alone asked “How can a nation be Great that can’t even build its own ships?”

And then he set about fixing it.

Rest in the Vine: Teddy Roosevelt's America...and Ours--TR on Submarines and the Navy

Psalm 89

20 he is my servant David! I have anointed him with my holy oil. 21 I will steady him and make him strong. 22 His enemies shall not outwit him, nor shall the wicked overpower him. 23 I will beat down his adversaries before him and destroy those who hate him. 24 I will protect and bless him constantly and surround him with my love; he will be great because of me. 25 He will hold sway from the Euphrates River to the Mediterranean Sea. 26 And he will cry to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and my Rock of Salvation.’