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Don’t Sink the Navy To Save It

The logic of cutting the fleet size today in order to fund its future growth is not finding traction among knowledgeable observers on either side of the aisle. It simply doesn’t make any sense.

Sailors of the United States Ship Delaware during a commissioning ceremony on April 2. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
STEVE COHEN
STEVE COHEN

“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.”

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STEVE COHEN
STEVE COHEN

Mr. Cohen, is an attorney at Pollock Cohen LLP at New York and a former member of the Board of Directors of the United States Naval Institute.

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