The Gunboat Diplomacy Fallacy: Why China's Love Affair with Big Guns is Misguided Chinese naval scientists have become enamored with the idea that large calibre guns are the answer to the threat of low cost drone swarms.
This fixation on the Trump class warship's nine massive naval guns is a classic tale of military hubris, driven by nostalgia for an era when battleships were the epitome of naval power.
The plan, announced in December as part of President Trump's "Golden Fleet" initiative, harks back to a bygone era. However, modern warfare has changed dramatically since then.