Larry Korb, senior fellow at the center, maintains that the Osprey should never have been built. “Why do we keep throwing money at this thing?” Korb asks.
Korb, who served in the Pentagon under President Reagan, acknowledges that stretching the buy of Virginia-class submarines might cost more money in the long run, but says the funding could be better put toward embassy security or diplomacy.
“If you give up something like aid to Mali, then you’ll have a bigger problem down the road,” he says.