US Battleships in T2K

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Originally Posted by Olefin

As for manpower - with many more modern ships either sunk or looking at maintenance issues from their high tech gear breaking down the USN may have more than enough manpower to keep at least one BB fully manned even as late as 2000

Once we're talking the 2000 time frame, though, the collapse of good lines of communication and just plain spotty communications themselves are going to come into play. MilGov and CivGov's biggest problems don't involve a lack of resources in an absolute sense, they involve a lack of an ability to move, manipulate, and mobilize those resources effectively across a nation that has collapsed into lawless chaos outside of tiny military zones of control.