Quotes of the Day

With essentially no conventional naval combat in the past 70 years, and with the last credible attack on an aircraft carrier coming at the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, it is hard to know when the aircraft carrier might pass into obsolescence. Whenever that moment does arrive, it will behoove us to act on our own terms. We will not like the alternative—Admiral [William] Sims again:

"It may be stated in general terms that most arguments in favor of fundamentally new weapons have failed, except those that resulted in shedding the blood of the unbelievers; that defeat alone has been accepted as a final demonstration."

- Lieutenant Commander Jeff Vandenengel, "100,000 Tons of Inertia" Vol. 146/5/1,407 Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute (May 2020) citing Armstrong, 21st Century Sims (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2015), 105 (Mr. Sims was a U.S. Navy Admiral in the 1920s).