To deter China’s growing naval power, the US must rapidly expand its fleet through a modern Naval Act, embracing large block buys and innovative shipbuilding reforms to boost capacity and speed. A significant amount of money could be spent on ordering warships this coming year. Still, we also need to work on reversing the retirement of many warships that occurred under President Biden. This reversal is all the more necessary when you consider what has been proposed for fiscal year 2026: the procurement of just 19 warships. That’s wholly inadequate given the growing dangers we face from our adversaries. America...