Trump's Battleship Dream: How Outdated Naval Fantasies Could Lose the Pacific | John Mearsheimer скачать в хорошем качестве

Trump's Battleship Dream: How Outdated Naval Fantasies Could Lose the Pacific | John Mearsheimer

Donald Trump's plan to revive battleship construction represents the most catastrophic naval strategy since the Maginot Line—America preparing to fight the last war while China builds weapons to win the next one. Modern hypersonic missiles can sink any battleship from 1,500 kilometers away at Mach 10 speeds, making these floating fortresses perfect targets rather than deterrent weapons. For the cost of one $15 billion battleship, China could build 3,000 carrier-killer missiles, creating an impossible cost-exchange ratio that guarantees American defeat through basic mathematics. Every dollar spent on these obsolete platforms is a dollar not spent on submarines, hypersonic weapons, and distributed forces that could actually deter Chinese aggression in the Pacific. John Mearsheimer explains why battleship nostalgia could hand China decisive victory without firing a shot, and why America must choose between building weapons for wars it wishes it could fight versus wars it will actually face.