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Build a fleet of more than 355 ships

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 4, p. 111. Written by Christopher Miller.

Build a fleet of more than 355 ships

The document says “must”Who acts: President, CongressHow: not specifiedp. 111 in the PDF
What the document says

“Build a fleet of more than 355 ships.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 111

The chapter asks for a fleet of more than 355 ships, for unmanned systems to be developed and fielded alongside the manned force, and for range and lethality to be the key factors in procurement and sustainment decisions for ships, aircraft and munitions.

What the document actually says

“Build a fleet of more than 355 ships.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 111
That sentence, in plain words

Build a navy of more than 355 ships.

What this is about

The book says the Navy needs to be bigger. It asks for more than 355 ships. It also wants ships that can run without a crew.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing among the candidates sets naval force structure. The nearest, Proclamation 11055, adjusts tariffs on imported unmanned aircraft systems and their components to build domestic drone production. It touches the unmanned systems the chapter raises alongside the fleet, but it is a trade measure and says nothing about the number of ships or about ship procurement. The other candidates are annual continuations of national emergencies over the movement of vessels in American waters. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 111.
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    “Build a fleet of more than 355 ships,” Project 2025, chapter 4, p. 111. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch04-355-ship-fleet/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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