1/ Long Navy force structure tweetstorm follows. After four solid years of talking a good game with respect to increasing the size of the Navy, the Trump Administration is poised to talk some more about it as they exit the scene.

2/ What follows is summary and analysis of a big day in Navy news that was and will be drowned out by the other aspects of the ongoing circus that is the Trump Administration.

3/ That is a shame, as there is a considerable amount of goodness in the plan, although its timing is obviously sub-optimal. So let's dive in.

4/ Yesterday, President Trump's Director of Office of Management and Budget and National Security Adviser (Messers @RussVought45 and @robertcobrien respectively) penned a @WSJ Op-Ed entitled "The Navy Stops Taking On Water" (paywall https://t.co/fxbgYdMog3 ) in which…

5/ …they announce a plan that will increase the size of the Navy from just under 300 today, to 355 within 10 years and almost 400 within 20. To pay for the increase, the soon-to-be-submitted FY22 Budget will add $6.7B in 2022 and then an additional $39B by 2026.