Yeah blame Carter and Obama, but blame Bush and the neocons.
Hint: no one wants to be an asian landpower. It's forced on Russia because of dint of geography. We can choose and GWB and the neocons chose poorly.
Andy, naval warfare is won in the nation’s shipyards, foundries and factories. We are off shoring all three of those things and the technical know how that goes along with it - for a buck. We cannot replace ships in an all out naval war. It’s not how many ships you have at the beginning of a war but how many you have at the end.