Thursday, March 29, 2012

GOP Worries New Navy Shipbuilding Plan Cuts Fleet While We 'Pivot' To Asia

AOL Defense  "Republicans think the Navy's new 30-year shipbuilding plan marks a fundamental mistake: cutting the size of the fleet from 313 to 300 or so when we are increasing our focus on the Asia-Pacific."
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"But one of the nation's most respected naval analysts says the new shipbuilding plan, which does see the number of ships dip to 279 in 2014 from the earlier planned fleet of 287, offered a much less glum assessment."....

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