Take a capital ship that you don't like.

Then take a moderately modern spy satellite.

Then take four dozen submarines.

Launch five hundred cruise missiles over the horizon.

Watch as ten million man hours, five thousand sailors and pilots and a hundred thousand tons of high-grade steel sinks helplessly to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

Dive, scatter and lose the counter-sub task force dispatched to hunt you down.

Repeat as necessary. They can get twenty of your subs for each capital ship you take out and you still come out ahead in terms of steel, man-hours and trained sailors.

Watch your capital be reduced to radioactive glass about forty-five minutes after the first capital ship gets an impromptu U-boat makeover.

- Jake

Austerity can only be implemented in the shadow of a concentration camp.