XPost: talk.politics.misc, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh   
   From: bks@panix.com   
      
    |   
    | On December 22, President Trump announced a new class of   
    | "battleships" that will be 100 times more powerful than   
    | previous battleships and larger than any other surface   
    | combatant on the oceans. The ship's purported   
    | characteristics are so extraordinary that the announcement   
    | will surely spark immense discussion. However, there is   
    | little need for said discussion because this ship will   
    | never sail. It will take years to design, cost $9 billion   
    | each to build, and contravene the Navy's new concept of   
    | operations, which envisions distributed firepower. A future   
    | administration will cancel the program before the first   
    | ship hits the water.   
    | ...   
      
      
       --bks   
      
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