It’s unclear how the U.S. plans to stop a capacity collapse among the ships needed to transport up to 90 percent of the Army’s and Marine Corps’ equipment for a major conflict.
The U.S. Army is troubled by a looming sealift shortfall that will create “unacceptable risk in force projection” within the next five years if the Navy doesn’t act quickly.
The U.S. Defense Department is pouring money into making the force more lethal, but by the end of the 2020s it will face the prospect of cascading down a sealift capacity cliff.