The depleted Navy needs immediate rebuilding as dangers rise

John Phelan was the 79th secretary of the Navy. “Outside, beyond the broad seas,” wrote Rear Adm. Alfred Thayer Mahan in 1890, “there are the markets of the world, that can be entered and controlled only by a vigorous contest.” Mahan understood that a nation’s prosperity and its survival rode on it...

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