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A Moneyball Strategy for America's Shipbuilding Crisis

The real challenge facing the United States is not where every ship is constructed. It is whether America possesses the industrial capacity to build, repair, modernize, and sustain the fleet required to compete with China over the coming decades. Framing the debate solely around geography risks overlooking the far larger strategic problem: the steady erosion of America's maritime industrial base.

A Moneyball Strategy for America's Shipbuilding Crisis

PACIFICAWeekly Pacific Strategic & Commercial IntelligenceWeek Ending: Sunday, August 16, 2026 — 9:54 p.m. EDT

Strategically, however, Japan faces simultaneous pressure from several directions: China to the southwest and west;North Korea to the west;Russia to the north. This helps explain why Japan's defense, maritime, energy and resource policies are increasingly converging.

WHO REALLY CAUGHT MAINE’S $45 MILLION MEDICAID PROBLEM?

Maine itself now says that improper payments identified through federal Payment Error Rate Measurement audits must be reimbursed to the federal government, while the state can seek recoupment from providers when provider error caused them. That's what happens after the money has gone out.