Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships? - by Brian Potter

A guest post by Brian Potter of Construction Physics.

Why Can't the U.S. Build Ships? A guest post by Brian Potter of Construction Physics. Brian Potter Sep 05, 2024 385 84 52 Share Via Workboat The question of why the U.S. can’t seem to build ships is one of the most urgent and vexing questions in the “Why can’t we build things anymore?” genre, because it immediately and directly impacts our ability to sustain a hypothetical war against the New Axis . Military shipbuilding is pretty different than commercial shipbuilding, but as we saw in WW2, both are important. Anyway, here to try to answer the question of why the U.S. doesn’t have a commercia

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