I thought that part of the lesson was to pass the Two Ocean Navy Act in 1940 so that all of the Essex class carriers were well on the way by the time the Asiatic fleet had been fully spent.

The biggest battleship in history (with the biggest guns!) famously got routed by destroyer escorts in the single surface engagement it ever participated in, and was later unceremoniously sunk by carrier aircraft.

So easy to go crazy by thinking about this for more than 3 seconds.

You will be shocked to hear that the Red Sea diversions have had virtually no measurable impact on the global economy, especially relative to the tarrifs.

There is no gizmo that an offset the disadvantage of not having 1.5m 155mm shells when you needed to have 1,500,000 155mm shells.

The land of the small, the home of the bean

if you want to actually push left-wing policies and build power you need deliver change to voters. if you're purely concerned with messaging to a handful of brain damaged twitter leftists you will never actually improve people's lives.