House Committee Sounds Alarm on Inadequate Sealift Fleet for Potential Indo-Pacific Conflict

‘Now, in the middle of a new Cold War, the United States finds itself with neither the sufficient military nor civil resources to meet our sealift objective.’

Chairman of the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), speaks during a press conference unveiling the results of the committee’s investigation into the biolab discovered in Reedley, Calif., in Washington on Nov. 15, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

The U.S. military sealift fleet is “woefully inadequate” for a potential conflict in the Indo-Pacific, according to Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Mr. Gallagher expressed concerns about the aging and underfunded U.S. sealift fleet in a Feb. 6 letter to Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, commander of U.S. Transportation Command, and Rear Adm. Ann Phillips, administrator of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration.