If you want to complain about the ship building budget, I’m all for cutting the littoral combat ship. They could build a flotilla of fast patrol craft and a tender for what they are spending on a single vessel. If we had those ships we could nail down the entire Somali coastline at very little cost.
They don’t need to nail down the coast. They need to light up about ten pirate vessels to end the problem. Once word gets back to the coast that the US military is sinking pirate boats nobody will be up for a death sentence.