Key Points
Trump’s battleship plan clashes with decades of U.S. naval strategy and technology shifts
Experts described it as a “prestige project,” a “bomb magnet” and said that “this ship will never sail.”
Even if it were technically feasible, the cost of building the battleship would be prohibitive.
You know he just decided that “we should have battleships” because he doesn’t know why we don’t, and if he doesn’t know why, then there must be no reason.