Re: History repeats itself
Re: the speed of pre-WWII battleships
A statement, possibly apocryphal, attributed to a USN senior officer was that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor had done the Navy a service, turning it from an 20-knot Navy into a 25-knot Navy by sinking a couple of the obsolete WW1-era battleships still in service.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
