Originally Posted by
Excargodog
Perhaps so, but the US Navy is going to have to get its act together with regard to ship numbers, maintenance, and crew training. Quality and technological superiority can only do so much. Numbers count too, and those numbers aren't that great.
That's up to the politicians, via budgets.
While it might appear on occasion the the USN wants to reduce the fleet size I can 100% guarantee that's because they aren't funded to maintain it adequately, and are trying to balance resources... best combination of numbers and types of ships, while still being able to maintain and man them with allocated funding.
AF does the same with planes. Army somewhat less so because their hardware is less complex and costly, they are more manpower intensive.