China has an advantage over the US Navy that could mean a 'decisive' defeat for US warships in a fig

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4. The National Interest- another discussion on this topic today

The U.S. Navy Is Unbalanced. It's Time to Fix It.

by John S. Van Oudenaren

In the decades after the Cold War, the U.S. Navy absorbed sustained budget cuts resulting in large force reductions. The total size of the fleet dwindled from nearly 600 active ships in 1987 to around 285 today. During this period, naval planners focused their substantial, yet shrinking, budgetary resources on large, costly, high-end platforms such as aircraft carriers at the expense of smaller surface warfare combatants such as frigates. This approach perhaps suited the range of global expeditionary missions that the navy was called upon to support in the 1990s (e.g. Bosnia, Iraq, Kosovo), a time when the United States faced no proximate military competitors.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/us-navy-unbalanced-its-time-fix-it-55447