{"id":16231,"date":"2025-01-28T17:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16231"},"modified":"2025-01-28T17:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T17:45:14","slug":"sunk-cost-the-us-navys-shipbuilding-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=16231","title":{"rendered":"Sunk Cost: The US. Navy&#8217;s Shipbuilding Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The U.S. is facing ship-building delay after ship-building delay, and they need these ships soon for China&#8217;s expected invasion of Taiwan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The industry has a conflict of interest between their obligations to the Navy and their shareholders.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congressmen care more about announcing orders&nbsp;for their reelections rather than making sure they are carried through efficiently.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sunk Cost: The US. Navy&#039;s Shipbuilding Crisis\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/msGcQT_WJMo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. is facing ship-building delay after ship-building delay, and they need these ships soon for China&#8217;s expected invasion of Taiwan. <\/p>\n<p>The industry has a conflict of interest between their obligations to the Navy and their shareholders. <\/p>\n<p>Congressmen care more about announcing orders for their reelections rather than making sure they are carried through efficiently. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=msGcQT_WJMo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[272,355,797,314,377,259,1056,1057,619],"class_list":["post-16231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-industry","tag-international-relations","tag-manufacturing","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-ships","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16232,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231\/revisions\/16232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}