Indo-Pacific strategy adds more pressures to navy amid ship, sailor shortages
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Irving Shipbuilding was tapped in 2010 to build a new fleet of 15 warships. But while the first of those ships was expected in the water by 2025, officials now say the first Canadian surface combatant won’t arrive until the early 2030s. “There is now political direction. And it’s not just operational discretion. There’s political direction now being given to the navy by the government that this is what’s going to happen.”
Yet he questioned how long the navy will be able to maintain such focus given the numerous other challenges and commitments on its plate, and the threat of new priorities should the war in Ukraine or the situation in Haiti become more severe.
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