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More Ships Can’t Save Overworked Navy; Basing Ships Abroad Can: CSBA

Breaking Defense

By SYDNEY J. FREEDBERG JR.

November 18, 2015 

CAPITOL HILL: The Navy and Marines are deploying at a pace they can’t sustain, says a report released today. And no feasible defense budget can build a big enough force to solve the problem, the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments says. Even the Navy’s famously optimistic 30-year shipbuilding plan — denounced by House seapower chairman Randy Forbes as “fantasyland” — wouldn’t close the gap between the supply of ships and the demand for them.

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