James Seddon,T&P
As a Navy blackshoe surface warfare officer, I saw firsthand how our fleet's leaders contain more missions than they contain ships to fill them. I watched flag staff in a command middle wrestle with operational problems that would contain been easier if they'd had more hulls, and more ships,of just approximately any kind of surface combatant. The Navy's go-to workhorse destroyers are too expensive to fill the gap, and its recent small-ship programs contain been plagued with problems.
There is one possible solution: Steal a page from the Russian navy's shipbuilding strategy and focus on raising a fleet of...
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