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“Crash Fleet:” An Emergency Shipbuilding Program

By Lieutenant Commander Brian Adornato, U.S. Navy Reserve

“The Navy emphatically acknowledges the need for a larger, more lethal force.”

“We cannot manifest a bigger traditional Navy in a few short years.”

These two quotes from the Chief of Naval Operations’ (CNO’s) Navigation Plan 2024 (NavPlan 24) highlight an intractable problem for the U.S. Navy. The service does not have enough ships. It also has too little time to build more, considering Admiral Phil Davidson’s warning that 2027 will start a period of high risk for war with China—a timeline NavPlan 24 affirmed.

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Fixing the US Navy’s shipbuilding problems starts with the workers, agency analysts say

  • US shipbuilding problems are decades old and raising concerns about US Navy readiness.
  • Officials, naval affairs experts, and politicians believe the primary issue revolves around workers.
  • Wages, working conditions, and retention are top priorities.

The American shipbuilding industry is grappling with severe problems, none perhaps more crucial than the state of the workforce, naval affairs experts said this week.

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Would Donald Trump Save Taiwan from China?

If China invaded or even merely blockaded Taiwan, would President Donald Trump deploy the U.S. military to defend the island democracy?

Given his “America First” rhetoric and a foreign policy outlook often caricatured as isolationist, many assume the answer would be no. However, such assumptions misunderstand the strategic logic underlying his approach to Taiwan and the wider Indo-Pacific.

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China Could Attack Pearl Harbor—and the West Coast

By Lieutenant Colonel Thomas McCabe, U.S. Air Force Reserve (Ret.)

Before 1940, Pearl Harbor had been something of a forward base. This started to change as events drifted toward war with Japan. The United States began to build up its forces in the Philippines, then a U.S. dependency, and it implicitly made two assumptions. The first assumption was that if war came, it would primarily be in the western Pacific. Second, Hawaii was now a rear area and therefore secure. On 7 December 1941, the Japanese Navy showed these assumptions were wrong.

Could the United States be making a similar miscalculation today?

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Philippine Gov’t is Alarmed by Claims of Chinese Sovereignty Over Palawan

The Philippine government is used to provocative statements from China’s state-owned media empire, but has expressed alarm at a new theory circulating on  tightly-monitored Chinese social media: the newly-created concept that Palawan, one of the Philippines’ home islands, is actually part of China.

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China is working on an enormous aircraft carrier that rivals the biggest in the U.S. fleet, analysts say

Featured Images suggest a new ship design unlike anything now in China’s navy, five analysts told NBC News.

By Matthew Bodner and Keir Simmons

It already has the world’s largest navy, but new satellite imagery shows that China is developing a huge nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that would rival the biggest vessel in the American fleet, five analysts told NBC News after studying new satellite imagery.

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