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We need all the help we can get ....now that it's a shooting war We can turn the Persian Gulf into an 'English speaking Lake' as well: https://news.usni.org/2016/08/24/video-destroyer-uss-nitze-harassed-iranian-patrol-boats USS Nitze seems to have a flair for engaging the enemy EDIT: here's the real problem imho. The ragheads may well be using a Marine General's Lt. Gen. Paul Van Riper plan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Challenge_2002

Red received an ultimatum from Blue, essentially a surrender document, demanding a response within 24 hours. Thus warned of Blue's approach, Red used a fleet of small boats to determine the position of Blue's fleet by the second day of the exercise. In a preemptive strike, Red launched a massive salvo of cruise missiles that overwhelmed the Blue forces' electronic sensors and destroyed sixteen warships. This included one aircraft carrier, ten cruisers and five of six amphibious ships. An equivalent success in a real conflict would have resulted in the deaths of over 20,000 service personnel. Soon after the cruise missile offensive, another significant portion of Blue's navy was "sunk" by an armada of small Red boats, which carried out both conventional and suicide attacks that capitalized on Blue's inability to detect them as well as expected

Blue water Navies, since the Spanish Armada for example, do not do well in restricted waters....