America has coasted on its past seapower foundation and is running out of momentum as China builds up a head of steam. One analyst sees great promise in the current Maritime Action Plan.
A plan to restore American naval power that is comprehensive enough to succeed:
The Maritime Action Plan aims at revivifying the maritime industrial base and the much-shrunken US-built and -flagged commercial fleet, not just to help America prosper economically but to supply US expeditionary forces sealift without which manpower and firepower cannot reach distant battlegrounds in sufficient quantity.
Now all we have to do is carry it out. Make it so. Because even if we right this figurative ship tomorrow, China will be outpacing us for quite some time in the ship construction portion of seapower.
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