November 5, 2024
The Foreign Desk has published an article by Jake Smith of the Daily Caller News Foundation discussing how much the United States Navy relies on potentially unreliable commercial vessels to transport military resources abroad.
The article states, ‘“We’re light years from where we need to be,” Stephen Carmel, head of the U.S. Marine Management, told the WSJ, referencing TRANSCOM’s fleet of fuel-transport ships. TRANSCOM would need more than 100 such vessels in a global conflict, according to some analysts’ estimates — but the command has only received promised access to 10.’
Read the full article here: ‘Light Years from Where We Need to Be’: Pentagon Relying on Potentially Unreliable Commercial Vessels for Transport – The Foreign Desk | by Lisa Daftari
