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Bryan Clark: Navy’s ‘shrink or swim’ dilemma

The Navy has to make some sink-or-swim decisions if it wants to remain intact. It must either maintain its fleet size and global presence and risk breaking the ...

Tom Temin@tteminWFED

November 19, 2015 8:55 am

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Bryan Clark, senior fellow, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments

The Navy has to make some sink-or-swim decisions if it wants to remain intact. It must either maintain its fleet size and global presence and risk breaking the force or shrink to what it can afford. That's one finding of a comprehensive study by the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Former Navy Officer Bryan Clark, a senior fellow at the Center, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about how these decisions could affect the force.