ASSOCIATED PRESSPresident Joe Biden sketched out the business case for a larger U.S. Coast Guard last week, addressing new graduates at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. Modest investment in Coast Guard engagement, Coast Guard waterfront improvements and Coast Guard operating expenses stands to offer America enormous geopolitical benefits. Little more than 2 percent of the Coast Guard’s measly $12 billion budget proposal goes towards foreign fishing enforcement. Finally, the Coast Guard needs funding to get engaged overseas. Coast Guard attaches need to be everywhere—from Guinea-Bissau to Tuvalu—and funded to really get “get out there” and engage.

Source: Forbes May 24, 2021 12:13 UTC