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If so, and assuming that we don't want to be dependent on being able to station our naval units on foreign soil indefinitely, we'd need something a bit bigger.
Cruisers are big ships (the size over destroyers) specialised on either air defence, submarine hunting or surface combat, or all of them.
Pretty much no one still builds cruisers, except the Americans and Koreans.
On the other hand, ship classes are a bit overlapping nowadays. And it doesn't get easier when they are called different things for political reasons. For example, the new German destroyers are called frigates. I guess the politicians feel Zerstörer sound scary. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
