Battlecarrier!
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Last week’s National Interest entry was on the various plans floated in the Navy to refurbish the Iowa class battleships during the Cold War:
But the Iowas were nevertheless magnificent ships, and various proposals emerged in and around the Navy to bring them back into service (indeed, even before the war was over some suggested converting the ships to aircraft carriers). These proposals would result in reactivations for the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the last stages of the Cold War. Indeed, some hopes for modernization persisted even into the 2000s.
This is also a subject I deal with at some length in the Battleship Book, although in more general terms.