GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney offered few new details about his agenda for the Pentagon in an Oct. 8 national security address that mostly slammed President Barack Obama’s foreign policy record.
Romney criticized Obama’s Middle East strategy numerous times and panned him for failing to “shape” events there and around the globe. If elected, Romney said he would “firmly and actively” use American power to that end — but he offered few specifics on how.
Notably, Romney used his speech at the Virginia Military Institute to announce that he would buy three submarines per year. That is part of Romney’s plan to swell U.S. Navy shipbuilding to 15 vessels a year, and it would be an increase of one new submarine annually.
The candidate’s submarine plan came just days after one of his advisers, John Lehman, President Reagan’s Navy secretary, told Defense News about Romney’s plans to build a larger Navy.
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