An open letter to the U.S. Congress

No trump battleship.

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Don’t allocate money for trump’s battleship folly! Here’s why: When the Nazis launched Bismarck, Hitler called the ship the most powerful warship ever put to sea. And maybe it even was. For less than a year. Because it was a target. THE target. Next to the Japanese battleship Yamato it became the single biggest naval target of WWII and was hunted down and sunk. And that was a major blow, because when you concentrate your assets, your "capital" all in one vessel, its loss is a disaster. That's the folly of battleships. They are too expensive (both monetarily and as a strategic asset) to risk in actual combat. But tricking a country into building them is a really great way to bankrupt that nation and make sure they can't afford the smaller, faster, more flexible, more technologically advanced and capable weapons that ACTUALLY win wars.

▶ Created on December 23 by Ken

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