Is anybody really building naval vessels that can sustain a beating and keep fighting? I thought that was the argument for keeping the battleships on and that argument lost with Clinton’s Admiralty.
After every war we go for cheaper faster lighter unarmored vessels. When the shooting starts suddenly we don’t have enough ships that can withstand combat and there is an about face and armored vessels are built in time to be mothballed when the shooting stops and new sleeker faster cooler unarmored vessels can be built.