cuz according to him our navy is the smaller than the one we had in 1917.
This is the sort of specious invidious comparison one can expect from a candidate who spent his whole adult life trapped in a high finance cocoon.
As usual The Former Viceroy doesn't take into account the vastly increased capabilities of our current navy. Nor does he note that we lack a ocean going military competitor similar fleet diversification (Inventory note, we have eleven carrier battle groups, the PRC has one, the Russians have...one.).
But amidst all the promised tax cuts and the chimera of a balanced budget, Mitt still wants more ships and planes and tanks, but being Romney he won't tell you how he will pay for all this hardware (probably deficit spending it's the preferred option of the chronically passive aggressive).
And anyway, you can have the biggest fleet in the world and still fail in your mission to control the sea lanes. Case in point, Germany's U-Boat campaign against Great Britain in World War One. The Royal Navy's battleship heavy fleet tonnage proved no impediment to the use of submarines in a purely economic war against the British Empire.
Romney might realize that, if he took time to read some history instead of that lifelong diet of dividend statements and spreadsheets he has woefully consumed.
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