Trump Is Right to Emphasize Shipbuilding

We’ve kicked away a strategic advantage.

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The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) sails in formation with the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers USS Winston Churchill (DDG-81), USS Bainbridge (DDG-96), and USS Forrest Sherman (DDG-98) in the Atlantic Ocean, November 12, 2024.

Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Jacob Mattingly/U.S. Navy

Alfred Thayer Mahan would be appalled.

The great 19th-century strategist and navalist surely would be shocked and mystified that we have allowed the country with which we are most likely to fight a devastating war — and a traditional land power, no less — to dominate global shipbuilding.

Rich Lowry

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Rich Lowry

Rich Lowry is the editor in chief of National Review.

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