In an interview with the Wyoming Star, CMS senior national security advisor Matt Reisener traced the decline to policy decisions from the 1980s onward. “America has deprioritized shipbuilding over the past several decades,” he said. He pointed to the elimination of subsidies in the 1980s, Congress’s difficulty passing budgets, and post-Cold War complacency. “The rise of globalization eroded America’s industrial base, which hurt the shipbuilding industry by weakening its skilled labor pool and industrial supply chain”.
Center for Maritime Strategy
Matthew Reisener | Quoted by Michelle Larsen
External Source: Wyoming Star
In an interview with the Wyoming Star, CMS senior national security advisor Matt Reisener traced the decline to policy decisions from the 1980s onward. “America has deprioritized shipbuilding over the past several decades,” he said. He pointed to the elimination of subsidies in the 1980s, Congress’s difficulty passing budgets, and post-Cold War complacency. “The rise of globalization eroded America’s industrial base, which hurt the shipbuilding industry by weakening its skilled labor pool and industrial supply chain”.
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Matthew Reisener, Senior National Security Advisor