Overgunned by Jay Tea

Last week, the US Navy announced that its vaunted "next-generation" destroyer, the DD-1000 or "Zumwalt" class of ships, would be discontinued after only two ships were built. Originally, they had hoped to put 32 of these hulls in the water, but constantly rising costs finally took their toll on the ships.

This got me to thinking about something that has been preying at the back of my mind for some time: what the hell should we be doing with our defense budget?

The primary mission of our armed services is to defend our nation and our interests wherever necessary, by whatever means necessary. And those means are most often through force, or the threat of force.

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