By Rich Smith, Motley Fool: “Out of 275 ships on the Navy's "Battle Forces" list, fully 23% of the Navy's ships are Arleigh Burke-class "destroyers," and 25% are nuclear submarines. Throw in a few Ticonderoga-class cruisers (8% of the fleet) and 10 operational aircraft carriers (4%), and well over half the fleet is made up of just four types of warship. Why doesn't the Navy have a more flexible toolkit, with more types of vessels designed to tackle more specific sorts of missions?”
A Tale of Two Navies
By Jack Curtis, Strategy Bridge: “As the United States struggles to cultivate new strategic partnerships, the task of carefully tending to existing partnerships remains critical to positively shaping an ever-changing geopolitical landscape. When considering existing partnerships, there is none closer than that between the United States and Great Britain, specifically between the respective navies.”