Pentagon lesson on waste sails into Iowa

Pentagon lesson on waste sails into Iowa

The USS Sioux City sails toward the U.S. Naval Academy for its official commissioning in 2018. U.S. Navy photo. Iowa is about as far removed from an ocean as you can get. But this state figures in recent news reports about the U.S. Navy — and not in a puff-up-our-chest-with-pride way. One of the reports was a New York Times examination of the Navy’s largest ship-building budget in history, $32 billion this year alone, and the tug-of-war that pot…