[spikeytx86]

There is no way we will be able to keep up our Naval Dominance with a two hundred and seventy something Navy. Things need to chance quickly in how we treat our navy or some day in the not too distant future, we will be ceding the seas to other powers.

[Doe Eyes]

I'm willing to take whatever tax cut is required to fund a larger Navy.

[Strategerist]

There is no way we will be able to keep up our Naval Dominance with a two hundred and seventy something Navy. Things need to chance quickly in how we treat our navy or some day in the not too distant future, we will be ceding the seas to other powers.

Numbers of ships is an terrible way to rate and compare navies - for example, there are significantly more missiles on US Navy ships today than there were at the Reagan Navy Peak of 568 ships in 1987.

And any way you look at it the no Navy in the history of the planet has ever been more completely dominant relative to all the other Navies in the world than the US, right now.

Stupid over-expensive designs and massive cost overruns for ship construction are a serious problem that will have to be addressed, though.

[MNJohnnie]

Numbers don't matter nearly as much in modern war as the did even 20 years ago. Pretty tough for the Chinese to fight a 21st Century Navy with a 1970s caliber technology.

But what the heck, if this is what it takes to get the politicals in DC to fund the Navy..

"Ah! The Chinese are coming! The Chinese are coming! Quick Build up the Navy!!!!!! HELP Save US! Help US Nancy P! Save us from the "Yellow Peril"!!!!"