After World War II, the United States provided naval security as a public good, allowing allies to free-ride on this protection, which created perverse incentives for countries to outsource shipbuilding to lowest-cost providers rather than maintain domestic maritime capacity.
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Captain John ConradEvidence Quote
“You had really in Congress and the Senate, you had Republicans who were really the party of commerce and big business. And big business wanted the cheapest price. They wanted the cheapest shipbuilding, so it in Korea instead of the United States”
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:08:21 PM
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