A Navy Second to None

Some encouraging statitics from the Weekly Standard:

According to Robert Work of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, the Navy we have right now could "knock the snot out of any competitor." Work says the Navy now has "far more strike power" than the 600 ship Navy of 1989. With 10,000 missile cells, and a carrier fleet capable of hitting just as many targets in a single day, the U.S. Navy is without a serious rival. During Pax Britannia, the British navy understood supremacy to mean a force size larger than the next two largest navies combined. The United States Navy has more ships than the next 17 navies combined.

I wrote extensively on this subject in an editorial titled A Navy Second to None.