Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro recently opined that the Navy needs to increase its budget by 3 to 5 percent if it is to keep pace with China’s Navy, already the world’s largest fleet. The percentage happens to be identical with that which the Commission on National Defense Strategy proposed in 2018 for the entire Department of Defense (DOD) budget. Moreover, it closely approximates the increase to the DOD budget request that both congressional defense authorizing committees approved in the past few months.