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As Kaplan writes, at the height of the Cold War the Navy had about 600 ships. The total dropped to 350 during the 1990s and now stands at 280 major combatants. But the service is still a force to be reckoned with. "The Navy enjoys a wider margin of naval superiority than at any point since the late 1940s," Robert O. Work, a defense analyst with the Center for Strategic Budgetary Assessments in Washington, said in a November 2006 study of maritime powers.The U.S. battle fleet is smaller than at any time in the past 70 years, but so are the rest of the world's navies, Work said. In raw warship tonnage, the U.S. battle fleet's total aggregate displacement is 2.85 million tons, he noted, which is 94 percent of the total aggregate tonnage of all warships in the world's navies combined. By comparison, China's navy comes in at 263,064 tons."
결론 : 미 해군이 줄었지만 다른 나라들과의 격차는 더 커졌다 ㅁㅇㄴㄹ
http://www.govexec.com/magazine/magazine-news-and-analysis/2008/02/quality-over-quantity/26211/