Yes, the Big Navy mindset = always fighting the last war, bumbling into the future with 20th century design thinking. I've invented 3 ship/torpedo/sub propulsion concepts that run rings around the fan-pushing-a-sledge idea of standard ships, but with their wooden head attitude, it's a "Billy Mitchell" situation and it will be left to our enemies to discover these concepts. Why did the nazis lose WWII? ans; an IDIOT corporal at the top...the demise of the DDX, just another ignored signal to self-styled, world class military-design geniuses....
It's funny that you mentioned Gen. Billy Mitchell. I was thinking about him during this discussion. One of many great American heroes.