It's not quite the perfect analogy, but have you read Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Superiority"? It depicts a hot arms race, and shows how the side which is more technologically advanced is defeated because of its own organizational flaws and its willingness to discard old technology without having fully perfected the new. It's told from the point of view of a defeated commander, at his court-martial. It was written at 1951, so the tech is dated of course, but it really does sound like he got the spirit of the times right.
The current naval side of the Pentagon seems to be adopting the idea that the quality of the technological masterpieces they've assembled will somehow offset the sheer displaced volume of hulls lost to these economizing decisions.
Any hull equipped with all that awesomeness has to manage to be displacing seawater out where it can use its tech, and given attrition is a thing, in enough numbers so one does not become none.
And with each test of the SM3 in the ABM role, I have pondered that any of those remaining fewer and fewer DDG hulls so equipped that got tasked to steam around in circles mid ocean assigned as continental ballistic missile defense assets won't be available to contribute to the pointy end of fleet kinetics.
Obviously posting here is preaching to the choir, but it does seem like that pointy end just gets narrower and narrower.
Our Little Crappy Ships are building and decommissioning simultaneously! Or were you talking about viable warships?
Our POTUS, his crackhead son and a bi-partisan boatload of legislators are in Chyyna’s pocket.
It's not quite the perfect analogy, but have you read Arthur C. Clarke's short story "Superiority"? It depicts a hot arms race, and shows how the side which is more technologically advanced is defeated because of its own organizational flaws and its willingness to discard old technology without having fully perfected the new. It's told from the point of view of a defeated commander, at his court-martial. It was written at 1951, so the tech is dated of course, but it really does sound like he got the spirit of the times right.
https://metallicman.com/laoban4site/superiority-by-arthur-c-clarke-full-text/
The current naval side of the Pentagon seems to be adopting the idea that the quality of the technological masterpieces they've assembled will somehow offset the sheer displaced volume of hulls lost to these economizing decisions.
Any hull equipped with all that awesomeness has to manage to be displacing seawater out where it can use its tech, and given attrition is a thing, in enough numbers so one does not become none.
And with each test of the SM3 in the ABM role, I have pondered that any of those remaining fewer and fewer DDG hulls so equipped that got tasked to steam around in circles mid ocean assigned as continental ballistic missile defense assets won't be available to contribute to the pointy end of fleet kinetics.
Obviously posting here is preaching to the choir, but it does seem like that pointy end just gets narrower and narrower.