414 Ships, No LCS: MITRE’s Alternative Navy
WASHINGTON: The Navy needs a vastly larger fleet — 414 warships — to win a great-power war, well above today’s 274 ships or even the Navy’s unfunded plan for 355, the think-tank MITRE calculates in a congressionally-chartered study. That ideal fleet would include: All told, the MITRE plan is even more radical than the competing […]