The U.S. Navy Can’t Build Ships By Gil Barndollar, a senior fellow at Defense Priorities, and Matthew C. Mai, a research associate at Defense Priorities. | Foreign Policy

"The United States can’t match the size of China’s fleet in the near or medium term. Deindustrialization, poor procurement choices, and a myopic fixation on the U.S. presence in the Middle East have seen to that."

"As former Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work has written, since the fall of the Soviet Union, the Navy has spent 30 years prioritizing global presence over warfighting readiness."