"The Navy is sitting at a unique time in its history. It recently released a detailed shipbuilding plan on May 11, 2026. Not since the announcement of the 600-Ship Navy of the 1980s has a Navy shipbuilding plan acquired such political and economic significance. The Navy has the political backing from the President to expand and fix its fleet and a request before Congress for multiple tens of billions of dollars. What could go wrong? Well, the blueprint for the so-called "Golden Fleet" was released to the Congress and industry right after the Navy was decapitated by the abrupt firing of the Secretary of the Navy. "This leadership vacuum underscores a deeper structural crisis: a widening, unbridgeable chasm between the Navy's strategic rhetoric and its actual acquisition priorities. Proponents are using the plan to justify a historic cash infusion, arguing it is the only way to arrest the rapid decline of American naval supremacy. Yet, throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at a broken system will not buy security." <https://wardell.us/url/ids3t> The complete working paper is available here.
David Wardell (757) 561-0582 <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] <https://wardell.us/url/b5s86> <https://wardell.us/url/s9qvz>
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