Navy has been how the country’s leaders have projected power on the world stage-but it’s now clear from years of cutbacks, sequestration, and an aging fleet that we’re going to be doing less of that power projection in the years ahead. Ever since Theodore Roosevelt’s “Great White Fleet,” the U.S. It was only the latest revelation, though, about how deeply and how quickly the Navy’s ambitions are shrinking-even in an age when our adversaries are growing their own navies in oceans around the world. And so, amid a more complicated and complex discussion this week over the sequestration’s impact, it didn’t go unnoticed Wednesday when Ashton Carter, President Obama’s defense secretary nominee, told Congress that the aircraft carrier fleet would likely continue to shrink. But just about everyone understands the Navy’s “ship count” and what it means for a president to send a carrier battle group into a crisis zone. His writings on foreign policy and national security are available at He can be followed on Twitter: many Americans understand how many Army divisions we have, the percentage breakdown of the Air Force’s fighter/bomber mix, or the three “Triad” legs of our strategic nuclear force. He served as a US Representative to the United Nations and was a Senior Advisor to Governor Mitt Romney. O'Brien is the California Managing Partner of a national law firm.
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