Did Hegseth really say the US isn’t prepared to face Russia “particularly at sea”? Last time I checked, the US had more aircraft carriers in service than the rest of the world combined. Meanwhile Russia had the flagship of its Black Sea fleet sunk by a Ukrainian anti-ship missile.
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The fashion for building Littoral Combat Ships (aka Little Crappy Ships) has created an operational gap that the US needs to fill.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-littoral-combat-ship