Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "Drachinifel"
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^ Complete nonsense. A~and nope, more than six nations had Capital Ships.
Fact is, from the Tudor period until WWII the Standing Navy was the best political symbol of national power, that also gave a physical real world ability to contest world trade.
The Must-Have Weapon thereof for centuries was the Battleship (different names over the years but functionally the same thing; the most expensive, best armed & protected class of ship in the fleet's Battle Line). Every country that could try to build them had to if they were to remain militarily - and thus merchantably - relevant. The French tried to flout convention in the late-1800's and got stuck in catchup mode for decades after, usually behind the relative newcomers of Germany & the USA 😆 .
(even Brazil for a time had a better pair of ships than they did)
Postwar the Politicians moved onto Nukes, the buckets of instant sunshine that some even claimed rendered conventional forces themselves redundant (they of course weren't), but finally lost Navies their Premier place, with the three branches of every country's military then battling for as many slices of the nuclear arms pie as possible.
(Spoiler, the Army lost that race almost every time, as did most surface ships)
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