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The U.S. Navy's Real Problem
« on: September 11, 2019, 10:40:06 am »
September 9, 2019

The U.S. Navy's Real Problem

Too small? A naval expert gives us his take.
by James Holmes

It turns out that this living-dead factoid refers to the total tonnage of the U.S. Navy fleet vis-à-vis foreign navies. On average American ships displace—or, roughly speaking, weigh—more than their counterparts overseas. Like numbers of hulls, tonnage is not a meaningless figure. Larger vessels can carry more fuel, armaments, and stores. Bigger is better—to a point.

The walking dead are ravaging Capitol Hill—again! I refer not to literal ghouls but to misleading ideas about navies that refuse to die in policymaking circles. The living dead shamble around during election season or just after—in other words, at times of political flux like this one, when one house of Congress has changed hands and the other is undergoing a leadership shakeup.

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/us-navys-real-problem-78921