“And the USN needs to accept that some of those hulls we be 4,000 tons, not 10,000 tons.
And, all submarines do not have to be nuclear. “
We have entered an age where cheaper, smaller and mostly unmanned is the strategy for victory. The age of the multi-billon dollar single target is over. We just haven’t had our Pearl Harbor wakeup call yet. I think there were elements in the navy and Congress in the late thirties who realized the battleship was done, but they lacked the pull to spend more on the right weapon for its time until the demise of the battleship was obvious even to the street urchin selling newspapers. Please, let’s not repeat that loss of life on an even bigger scale.
Well said,Sir.