Tomahawks have an anti ship capability, and the standard missile has an anti surface mode as well.

Dead on correct.

Yes it does. All ships do.

What are you talking about? This class has plenty of anti ship capability, as does the Burke class.

How does external damage transiting a collision have to do with the ship’s engineering?

?? The Zumwalt has plenty of anti ship capability.

That canal is eating our ships! Didn’t this exact same thing happen to one of the LCS class?

I agree completely. My position is we should not base troops in a nation for THEIR defense (i.e. South Korea) unless their spending matches ours as a percentage of GDP.

Agree in your first point. And I’m not supporting Trump here, just pointing out the latent hypocrisy in the article that better men should handle this. Better men F’d it up too.

I do know how hard it is to deploy halfway around the world, because I’ve been deployed halfway around the world.

Wait a minute:

Actually getting stuck in the past is the worst mistake we can make, and the world has changed considerably since th Cold War, and blind focus on NATO is something that absolutely needs to be rethought, this predates Trump by years, so don’t “trump” it up as that issue.

Absolutely correct.

We carry 71% of the cost of NATO. That is an absurd expense for us to carry to defend many wealthy nations.

I can’t disagree with that, just pointing out that each of these issues is already is a class V shitstorm, despite our copious efforts to fix them.

You’re right. We should just do it for free. I don’t mind paying for them.

True that. There are only three choices in the Arab Mideast.

Pakistan and India have been going at it for a generation+. Where ya been?

A Prius. And head to San Francisco so you will be in good company of others shrilly fearing the next sunrise.

Dead on right.