"We might recall the salty Navy aphorism, attributed without firm basis to Adm. Hyman Rickover: "There are two types of ships: submarines and targets." Given the ubiquity of satellite surveillance, secrecy is an anachronism. The assorted missile arrays poised to take out a carrier task force make an entire fleet into a veritable floating Pearl Harbor. Positioning a fleet between Taiwan and China invites an incident with limitless potential for escalation. Were even one ship to be sunk by China, what then would our retaliatory strike provoke? As Adm. Rickover warned: "Unfortunately . . . attempts to limit war have always failed. The lesson of history is when a war starts every nation will ultimately use whatever weapon it has available." A surface Navy in the context of nuclear-armed belligerents is as antiquated as the canvas sail.
Lt. Cdr. Jeffrey R. Smith (USN, Ret.)" [1]
1. Our Overworked Navy Needs Real Attention
Wall Street Journal, Eastern edition; New York, N.Y. [New York, N.Y]05 May 2021: A.16.
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