Comments by "Steve Valley" (@stevevalley7835) on "The USN Mothball Fleet - Storing up for a rainy day" video.

@ricardokowalski1579 A piece I read recently indicated that USN thinking by the start of WWI was 100% about the care and feeding of battleships. Even the destroyers were primarily for protecting the BBs from torpedo boats. A couple exercises in 1915 and 16 showed the weakness in fleet composition: the attacking force tried to use DDs as scouts, but sea conditions were not ideal, and the DDs, which ran around 1,000 tons at the time, could not even keep up with the BBs, let alone run out ahead and look around. Then conditions worsened and the DDs had to return to port, so the BBs steamed ahead with absolutely no idea what laid ahead of them, just over the horizon. Things did not go well for them. That experience started the development of the Omaha class CLs.
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