Swamp Yankee of Oz

 A little Schadenfreude here. from the Bulgarians....and sadly very correct..English is a little broken (as is mine at times:) , but it is a fairly good synopsis of the dearth of capability brought by the LCS and the processes or lack thereof that got us here

American warships of one class turn into a metal scrub (bulgarianmilitary.com)

https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2021/01/13/american-warships-of-one-class-turn-into-a-metal-scrub/

"At the turn of the 90s and 2000s, even before 9/11, euphoria reigned in the American top military-political leadership abyss. Great America was the only superpower. Half-dead Russia begged for loans from the IMF and tried not to lose the war to several thousand bandits in the Caucasus. China was already the world’s factory, but this factory did not have anything to threaten American rule. America could unleash wars, attack other countries, declare good for evil and vice versa, and indeed do absolutely anything.

On the one hand, the euphoria of omnipotence led to the abandonment of investments in such things as hypersonic weapons. On the other hand, it gave rise to a whole class of weapons and military equipment, much more suitable for punitive police operations in ruined underdeveloped countries than for real war with a strong opponent."

"Everything would be fine, but the concept began to grow into details – precisely as it was shown in the old comedy “The Pentagon Wars.” They decided to make this ship modular. They assumed that the modules’ replacement would quickly and inexpensively change the boat’s purpose – from anti-submarine to the landing base. All these were the disaster of the project. The modules required internal volumes; the volumes increased the body; the enormous body needed a more powerful power plant.

Still, it did not fit into it, the body had to be increased further, and again a new, even more, the mighty power plant was required. Plus, these modules were not some then products and complex weapons and equipment, including a helicopter. And where the helicopter is, there are a hangar for it, a control room, and fuel reserves, which are again volumes and, as a result, contours.

What happened next is called the “death spiral” in English. This “spiral” is when any step forces the player to circle the death ending and then still meet him. These spirals were spinning with the LCS project and eventually turned it into something completely meaningless."