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Boosting the Maritime Industrial Base for Navy Combat Power

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Boosting the Maritime Industrial Base for Navy Combat Power
Steel Navy Ship Sunnyvale in dry dock at the San Francisco Shipyard in 1969. From the National Museum of Industrial History permanent collection
Rebecca Grant
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President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming defense team will soon face a sobering fact: China’s navy is bigger than the U.S. Navy. “Our U.S. Navy shipbuilding is in a crisis and the U.S. Navy is dramatically shrinking,” Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) has said. By 2027, the U.S. Navy may be down to 280 ships while China’s navy hits 400.
Rebecca Grant
Rebecca Grant
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Rebecca Grant, Ph.D., is a national security analyst and vice president, defense programs for the Lexington Institute, a nonprofit public-policy research organization in Arlington, Virginia. She has held positions at the Pentagon, in the private sector and has led an aerospace and defense consultancy.
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