Perrys to the Rescue: Could the U.S. Navy's Retired Frigates Make a Comeback?

Perrys to the Rescue: Could the U.S. Navy's Retired Frigates Make a Comeback?

The Navy is taking “a hard look” at options to rehabilitate, modernize and recommission several of its retired ships.

Hunter Stires is a student at Columbia University and a researcher at the Center for the National Interest. He is the author of “1941 Asiatic Fleet Offers Strategic Lessons,” published in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings in August 2016.

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