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Article: NAVY SPENDING UP IN HAMPTON ROADS DON'T REST ON THE OARS.(FRONT)(Editorial)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- February 14, 1996
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The news that Navy spending was up in Hampton Roads in 1995 - $10.6 billion compared with roughly $7 billion in each of the four preceding years - is cause for cheer. It is not cause for complacency.
Hampton Roads is heavily dependent upon defense spending - too heavilydependent for its long-term good.
Yes, the world is still a dangerous place.
Yes, protecting U.S. security and U.S. vital interests in the Western Hemisphere, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere dictates big Pentagon budgets indefinitely.
Yes, it has seemed plausible all along that a leaner Navy would concentrate much of its diminished fleet in Hampton Roads, ...