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| + | ==A Word from the Secretary of the Navy== |
| + | <blockquote> |
| + | Today, our Navy is less than half as large as when it last faced a major peer competitor in the late 1980s. Meanwhile, U.S. gross domestic product has grown from $5 trillion in 1988 to $19.5 trillion. Our trade by sea has since tripled, from $230 billion to over $880 billion... |
| + | ...We are also considering how unmanned surface and subsurface platforms not traditionally counted as “battle force ships” (mostly because they have never existed at scale) should figure into our force mix... |
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| + | </blockquote> |
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| =References= | | =References= |