I've suspected for a while now we will need to clean out all the top brass at the Navy.

a senior defense analyst

All services are stuffed with conventionalists at the top who cannot think how to do things better and waste time and money. We dont need more ships, we need weapons and better sensors on what we have. We need to tie together things with a battle network that allows us to find target and strike the enemy which right now is too slow and limited to certain platforms. But more importantly we need the services to have a hard conversation with the WH and DOS and turn down missions we take for no reason. Limit to what's necessary to slow the tempo and consolidate what we have. Right now we'll run it into the ground before they're ever used