I fear for us if a shooting war starts. At sea we will lose many ships before we realize that WW III will not be a re-play of WW II. The American public will he shocked and horrified to watch the video of one of our vaunted carriers rolling over and taking 2,000 Seaman and woman to Davy Jone’s Locker. Would our enemies show us—you bet. We have not had to fight an industrialized power with a navy since 1945—we may well have lost our edge. One thing to fight 3rd world backward states with a tin-ot dictator—a whole different thing to battle a well organized modern nation Hell bent on our destruction.
“At sea we will lose many ships before we realize that WW III will not be a re-play of WW II.”
Actually, the Chinese are trying to duplicate our naval vessels.
We have to assume our leaders are aware of missile attack possibilities. At least, they use to be.