There’s a major problem with America’s shipyards. They cannot produce warships for the Navy even though they are lavished with gobs of tax dollars, and, thanks to 10 U.S. Code Section 8679, all U.S. military warships must be built in American shipyards. Therefore, US Navy shipbuilders have no real competition.
One would think that there would be no excuse for American shipbuilders to be unable to meet increased demand (let alone peacetime demand) for the construction of new warships. And, given the importance that the US Navy has for the country’s Armed Forces, one could be forgiven for simply assuming that the construction of warships would be a national priority.
But, as the recent complications regarding the construction of the Navy’s new Virginia-class submarines prove, America’s shipyards are in dire straits.
Even though the world has become gripped in war fever, with wars and rumors of wars erupting all across the arc of Eurasia—even fears that major warfare could erupt between Venezuela and their neighbors in Guyana—America’s shipyards continue to putter along, failing to meet the needs of their US Navy clients.
