What Wardaddy said.
Reefs? No.
Useless targets when they are in range of China? Yes.
The next Prince of Wales and Repulse? Yes. Everybody knows it except the heirs of the “Battleships Forever!” crowd.
Billy Mitchell tried to warn the battleship dinosaurs. They refused to listen. Prince of Wales and Repulse proved Mitchell’s point.
I hope we don’t suffer an equally ignominious lesson with our dinosaur flattops. What a waste of treasure and lives that could have been better invested.
What’s so hard? A simple yes or no.
It was primarily Winston Churchill's fault.
He was, in many ways, fighting the last war.
We should be putting much more into the Space Force than into new Carriers.