At that point, the annual military budget was 50% of the economy. It’s now about 3.5%. If we went back to 50%. I expect we could have a 5,000 ship navy. But we’d need to sell a lot of war bonds.
Note that a lot of that was due to scale economies. We were making many dozens of a given ship type. Today, it’s a few these, a few of those.
Didn’t we once have a 600 ship Navy back in the 70s or 80s?
Plenty of money for illegal immigrant healthcare and transgender prison inmates,though.
Hugh Hellit will be crushed....
Give him time, he does6 bother with small dreams.
305 into 355 is 86%. So the Navy got 86% of what it wanted out of the budget. To me, “sunk” is an exaggeration. Besides, he’ll get another four years to rebuild the naval command.
Good God , I went to this .org’s site and they are all chicken little stories of woulda’/shoulda’ and coulda’.....Chicken little has nothing on this group of yahoo’s...they have a section labled “the skeptics”.....Now that I think of it we only have 11 some odd years left anyway....why worry?. More subversive claptrap which will be quoted somewhere on the main stream propaganda pushers show.
Develop a flight deck that can be quickly laid over the top of shipping containers.
The latest cruise ships have elevators that are attached to the side of the ship.
Put fuel bladders and pumps in some of the containers.
Propose to SECDEF to investigate cutting deals with countries to base overseas, which will cut down operating costs. Tell POTUS to call in some margins and make it happen. The main threat is China. So Okinawa, South Korea, Australia, Philippines for starters. Then look around the globe and find other places so that the fleets are where we need them.
In time of war the President is authorized and empowered, in addition to all other existing provisions of law:
First. Within the limits of the amounts appropriated therefor, to place an order with any person for such ships or war material as the necessities of the Government, to be determined by the President, may require and which are of the nature, kind, and quantity usually produced or capable of being produced by such person
If only Japan was able to see into the future.
Does that include civilian merchant ships that were pressed into service? That number seems very misleading.
If I posted this item there would be a manic depressive calling for my ZOT.
Just saying.
Our ships should be used to patrol our coastal waters and protect our merchant ships.
I somewhat get the impression with these stories is that most of our defense mustering strategy is based on costly innovations that have to go through lengthy testing and practical shakedowns before we even see working units or platforms.
Shouldn’t we base the bulk of our force on more “off the shelf” technology options for these missions?
I know stealth technology, rail-guns, lasers pew pew, spaceships and robot donkeys are neato, but these tech ideas are extremely cutting edge.
Shouldn’t we simply focus on the military as an effective force that can meet the missions we are reasonably fielding. I don’t mean stop innovating, but we’ve been developing all these “new type” weapons. Are we able to meet current and near future threats effectively?
Just double the missile batteries.
Any article in the ‘National Interest’ today needs to e read with the understanding that this magazine is virtually a Neo-Con megaphone and is firmly part of the K Street perpetual war galaxy. It will never say anything positive about DJT, that is for certain.
Zhang Fei is right. Almost our entire economy was focused on the war effort.