QDR is Panned

Almost universally. I'm not so sure China is our new buddy in the era of globalisation as some think, but I do agree with this statement:

The F-22 and the Virginia-class submarines were, quite literally, initially devised over a decade ago with the Soviet Union in mind. American planners, quite sensibly, tried to anticipate the next generation of Soviet weaponry and design new systems of our own to counter those weapons. But the Soviet threat vanished a long time ago, the next-generation Russian equipment never materialized. But the American weapons, instead of dying, were merely equipped with a new set of thin rationalizations.

The DD(X) isn't quite as useless. Its shore-bombardment capabilities would be genuinely useful if we had a few on hand. But the ships are ludicrously expensive. Another new kind of boat, the Littoral Combat Ship, is almost as useful and costs just a fraction of a DD(X). The more expensive ship would be justifiable if there were some chance America would find itself engaged in large-scale blue-ocean combat, but there isn't.

The LCS is a few hundred million higher than its prototype, the Joint Venture class of catamarans, which run about $50-100 million each, and can carry most every weapons being designed for the costlier ship.