If More Money Buys a Smaller US Fleet, What Will Less Money Buy?

With an introductory comment at http://nation.time.com/2012/12/03/seasick/, Time's Battleland blog is today starting my three part series on the US Navy.  I was inspired to write this analysis by a particularly silly discussion of these issues from both sides during the recent presidential elections debate.  Find part one at http://nation.time.com/2012/12/03/if-more-money-buys-a-smaller-fleet-what-will-less-money-buy/ and below:

 

The U.S. Navy: Troubled Waters

If More Money Buys a Smaller Fleet, What Will Less Money Buy?

By Winslow Wheeler Dec. 03, 2012

First of three articles

Tuesday: the Navy's capabilities-threats mismatch
Winslow Wheeler is the Director of the Straus Military Reform Project of the Center for Defense Information, a part of the Project on Government Oversight in Washington, D.C.

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