Advisers to President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney sparred yesterday over the candidates’ approaches to defense spending and Navy shipbuilding. Romney’s plans to increase naval shipbuilding from nine to 15 ships per year, an argument that the boost is needed because the Navy fleet has not been as small since 1916, was a source of friction at a Washington event hosted by three think tanks intended to contrast his and Obama’s foreign-policy agendas. And the dueling campaign surrogates--Obama…
Obama, Romney Camps Spar Over Navy Shipbuilding, Defense Budget
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