On Thursday, Secretary of the Navy nominee John Phelan spoke to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, and it was an interesting conversation. Mr. Phelan laid out his priorities, if confirmed, very plainly: Shipbuilding, training, shipbuilding, promoting warfighters instead of woke scolds, shipbuilding, and I think he mentioned building more ships:
Speaking at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Phelan, a former private investor and businessman, emphasized his and President Donald Trump’s commitment to increasing the number of ships that comprise the military’s naval fleet. As The Federalist previously reported, the size of America’s naval fleet and the country’s shipbuilding capacity have diminished significantly in recent decades, going from a fleet of more than 500 ships at the end of the Cold War to less than…
