Isn't this 3 years old now?
It is. Wasn't ever posted here, however, so this rectifies that. Not much has changed since this article was written over 3 years ago. If anything, it underestimated the negative impacts as projected. We are now actually under the 290 Navy ships that were forecast...
Which makes it all the more urgent that we undertake to really educate the voters and legislators, and try and counter all the "static" of the liberal MSM...and the Administration's thin pretexts itself.
Paul Wolfowitz's (Rumsfeld's last deputy) in his last budget, before going on to a new job as head of the World Bank, classified the Navy procurement budget as Officially a "peacetime budget."
Further update...showing if anything the problem was understated: We are down to ten ships fewer than forecast for this timeline:
Today the U.S. fleet numbers: 280 shipsThe hemmorhaging continues.