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America’s Shipbuilding Crisis: A Strategic Vulnerability in an Era of Global Tension

As the United States navigates an increasingly volatile global landscape, its shipbuilding crisis has emerged not just as an industrial shortfall but as a looming geopolitical liability.

A recent report by the Open Markets Institute reveals how decades of neglect, deregulation, and deindustrialization have left the American nation dangerously exposed at sea economically, militarily, and strategically.



The US Navy, once the uncontested guardian of global sea lanes, is now on track to shrink to just 280 ships by 2027, far behind China’s rapidly expanding fleet, projected to exceed 400 ships.

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