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==A Word from the Secretary of the Navy==
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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...
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...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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