For decades, the world’s great powers built countless battleships, not only as a way to win the modern naval battles of the time, but to demonstrate their nation’s technical and naval capabilities on the grandest of scales. While the era of the battleship is over, talk still pops up every now and again about a return from retirement, with America’s Iowa-Class battleships being brought back into service–well, at least in our imaginations. Aircraft carriers, on the other hand, are still the dominant power projection platform of the U.S. and other navies. While many argue the carrier is following a similar path towards obsolescence, thanks to various types of anti-access/area-denial weapons, one can’t deny that the mighty flattop, at least for right now, is still the ultimate non-nuclear way to quickly strike an advisory with devastating force. But which battleships and carriers were the best?
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/the-5-best-battleships-aircraft-carriers-all-time-17709
