So wasn’t the original sales job on this conceptual ppt project “Big ships are too valuable to push into The Littorals, and that’s the only war the Navy will ever see again because (wishes), so we need less expensive hulls, which means smaller, which means all the toys won’t fit, which means swappable toys modules, and lots of hulls mean…
So wasn’t the original sales job on this conceptual ppt project “Big ships are too valuable to push into The Littorals, and that’s the only war the Navy will ever see again because (wishes), so we need less expensive hulls, which means smaller, which means all the toys won’t fit, which means swappable toys modules, and lots of hulls means lots of bodies, which we don’t and won’t have, so minimal manning, and blue/gold...” and so on, with everything rooting back to “push the fleet into The Littorals otherwise the Navy is useless” as the underlying premise.
But now we are facing a light blue water naval adversary with aspirations to dark blue.
Doesn’t that mean the folks who are supposed to be figuring out the next war are the real root cause of this fiasco?
So wasn’t the original sales job on this conceptual ppt project “Big ships are too valuable to push into The Littorals, and that’s the only war the Navy will ever see again because (wishes), so we need less expensive hulls, which means smaller, which means all the toys won’t fit, which means swappable toys modules, and lots of hulls means lots of bodies, which we don’t and won’t have, so minimal manning, and blue/gold...” and so on, with everything rooting back to “push the fleet into The Littorals otherwise the Navy is useless” as the underlying premise.
But now we are facing a light blue water naval adversary with aspirations to dark blue.
Doesn’t that mean the folks who are supposed to be figuring out the next war are the real root cause of this fiasco?