In the meantime, the events on Guam in 2019 serve as maybe the most outstanding reminder of how the Pentagon’s fixation on high-end threats, and the huge gold plated weapons programs that are put into play to counter them, have left even those very capabilities remarkably vulnerable to far less advanced attacks.”
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Drone swarm weapons are going to obsolete a lot of countermeasures.
Almost all combat surface ships are floating coffins in the modern technological era. Stealthy drones, as small as seagulls, themselves launched by cruise missiles and directed by a geek in a bunker far from the sea, can sink any ship. Does anyone believe that the current crop of political pole climbing suckup battleship admirals that command the Navy recognize new realities or would risk their perch to do anything?