The Anti-Submarine Element in the Navy

In World War II, it was the battleship lobby because when you see something like the USS Missouri or Iowa or Pennsylvania, they were in the first Gulf war. So that was because we had stayed too long with battleships. And so did the Japanese. They had the Mushasi and the Yamamoto. Those were just the biggest battleships that have ever been built, 73,000 tons. It was so expensive to operate, they just stuck it out at a wall and let it sit there for most of the war for it was sunk. There's always a battleship. But my point in this is so there was the battlesship was obsolete then came the carrier and they cost now