Same concept. The DD(x)/CG(X) shuld not be the basis of a liht escort. Our navy seems to think that escorts are irrelevent. Perhaps they have never heard of enemy submarines.
New, light, Frigates are on the way.
The Littoral Combat Ship is more of a corvette than a Frigate. I am thinking of a more Modern OH Perry class: a stealthy jack of all trades with a lower price line.
Carriers- which, after all, won't require as many escorts as they did a decade and a half ago.
Against Sudan, maybe. Not against China.
Another Airborne Division, I think, is key.
As lng as it is set up to be re-enforced with heavy units.
Plus additional large bombers (B-2's or a new design).
We would need more for a 2 front war.
Frankly, the only Naval power of real use in the near term is that capable of projecting power onto land.
We still need to be able to defend territory from naval attack.
Escort and sea-control still matter.
It is far easier to defeat a Chinese naval force (or deter it) than to take out land forces once Taiwan is neutralized.
The US Army could not defeat all of the other armies in the world- the Air Force might be able to defeat every other Air Froce in the world combined- maybe.
We don't need to. We simply need to be able to defeat the next 2 largest.
But the US Navy is so overwhelmingly superior in terms of sea combat that it seems probable that it could defeat every other navy in the entire world several times over.
You assume that we will always have time to mass forces ahead of time.
Do you really think that the green-water areas around China and Taiwan wouldbe that easy to hold?