The South China Sea's Gathering Storm

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Originally Posted by ORAC

Who is talking about $B dollar warships? If you read recent posts/threads you’d realise that the USN expansion is going to be heavily based around small, fast drone ships....

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/bu...e-ships-172932

That is not where the USN dollars are going though,.Although the concept gets lots of ink, the funding is peripheral, because the big prestige projects such as the Ford carriers, the SSBN subs and the cruisers suck up every spare penny.
The Navy is cruising for another Pearl Harbor, with its eyes firmly on the past. Some part of it understands that is a problem, but they are a minority, just as the aviation enthusiasts were in the 1930s, only these are even less influential.