Updated: November 16, 2016 4:43 PM
Analysts: Growing Fleet to 350 Ships Will Be Challenging
By RICHARD R. BURGESS, Managing Editor
ARLINGTON, Va. — Building up the Navy’s battle fleet to 350 ships will not be easy, said two think-tank analysts, because of limitations in budget and in shipbuilding infrastructure.
A build-up of the fleet to 350 ships is an announced goal of President-elect Donald Trump for his incoming administration.
Dakota Wood, a former Marine officer, senior research fellow for Defense Programs and editor of the “Index of U.S. Military Strength” at the Heritage Foundation, and Jerry Hendrix, a retired Navy captain, senior fellow and director of the Defense Strategies and Assessments Program at the Center for a New American Security, addressed the prospects for a build-up Nov. 16 with an audience at the Heritage Foundation on the occasion of its publication of the “2017 Index of U.S. Military Strength.”
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