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The Essential National Security Economics of the U.S. Navy - Part 5
World War II — America’s Shipbuilding Arsenal
To really grasp how precarious today’s naval shipbuilding situation is, you have to rewind to the 1940s. During World War II, the United States didn’t just build ships — it built an entire floating armada at a pace the world had never seen before and has never seen since.
The scale is hard to put into modern terms. Between 1941 and 1945, American shipyards produced more than 6,000 naval vessels of all kinds: aircraft carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, submarines, and thousands of support ships. On top of that, the country churned out…
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