The US Navy is looking distinctly tatty and worn out. Some of that is just down to how ships look at the end of a long deployment, but the very fact they are having to deploy ships for that long is an indicator that political expediency is over-stretching the Navy.

If you compare US shipbuilding/repair capacity to China, or even India or Russia, the US is going to struggle to maintain the number of ships in commission. With the US's inability to field hypersonic weapons or the latest in shipboard AA/SAM systems, they are also falling behind in technology. The only advantage they'll have is in experience, if they can keep the crew from resigning as soon as they hit the dockside.