Replying to a message of Steve Ewing to Robert Comer:

 SE> ISTR the British learning the downside to an all-missile ship when the
 SE> time came to bombard the Falkland beaches.

 >> I think the old Battleship idea is still a good one for stuff like
 >> that...  - Bob Comer

So do I.  When New Jersey was off South Vietnam she was worth a couple of
squadrons of fighter-bombers to the grunts.  She didn't care whether it was
day or night, what the weather was like, had virtually unlimited loiter
time, and could put bigger bangs - and more of them - more accurately and
in a smaller geographical area than could the aircraft, and she could
handle multiple targets simultaneously.  Which is why, of course, she was
taken off station and put back into mothballs - the North Vietnamese
complained and Nixon acceded to their demand.

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