[RobbyS]

One hundred years ago, the Royal Navy, the largest in the world, had one drydock. The United States Navy,the 3rd largest, had 18.

[rlmorel]

Of course, when it came time to produce for a war we had to produce for to win, those 18 dry-docks came in quite handy.

[BwanaNdege]

One hundred years ago, the Royal Navy, the largest in the world, had one drydock. The United States Navy, the 3rd largest, had 18.

England covers a total of 50,346 square miles.
The State of Georgia covers 59,441 square miles.

Did that total of only one drydock include the colonies?

India, Australia, Canada, etc?

[CIB-173RDABN]

The United States has coast 2000 miles apart with no easy way to get from one side to the next.

Of course we would have more dry docks. That is a poor example of waste.

Then when a little thing called WWI showed up, which Navy was able to resupply the other?

At the end of WWII we had the most powerful military the world had ever seen, yet a few years later when the Korean war showed up, we were understaffed, under equipped, under trained. All that money “saved” ended up costing more in treasury and blood.