Even before using a US Navy armada to capture Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, President Donald Trump had big ideas to remake the service in his image. At a glitzy Mar-a-Lago rollout last month, he announced a new “Trump class” of battleships, ostensibly to lead a 21st-century “Golden Fleet.” Is this bold — and very expensive — vision the right approach for dominating the high seas?
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Trump’s Big, Beautiful Battleship Is a Sitting Duck
