Not several, two! It’s not a big difficult number…

1: Pride... pride is a lousy reason to put an obsolete system back to work. The time of the Iowa-class is past. Let them rest in peace and be museums for others.

Trump is so out of touch with reality I’m just glad he didn’t give this speech from the deck of this sailing ship...

Unfortunately, it’s considered bad luck to rename a ship. Any military vessel needs all the luck it can get.

Battleships generally went the way of the dodo once air power became superior. There are not any huge naval battles between ships anymore. Surface ships are mainly used for troop transport, aircraft launching and some support for ground troops and missile launching platforms. Like a lot of things of the times however…

The path forward is clear.