LEAGUE CONFERENCE - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates addresses the audience at the annual Navy League of the United States conference in National Harbor, Md., May 3, 2010. DoD photo by Cherie CullenGates Challenges Navy’s Future -- FOX News
In a broad speech outlining his views on the future of American naval forces, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and expressed an overriding need for the country's sea-going forces to adapt to a constantly changing global security landscape.
Gates wondered if "at the end of the day, we have to ask whether the nation can really afford a Navy that relies on $3 to 6 billion destroyers, $7 billion submarines, and $11 billion carriers."
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