Nowadays, guided missile cruisers replaced battleships in the surface role, aircraft carriers in force projection, area denial and long range combat. One could

Nowadays, guided missile cruisers replaced battleships in the surface role, aircraft carriers in force projection, area denial and long range combat. One could make a point about cheap shore bombardment with artillery so, but then again modern day artillery shells are far from cheap, so guided missile cruisers it is. Another thing the article misses: submarines were rendered useless by ASW tactics and technology by end of '43. It took the first true submarines in late '44 and '45 to change that again. And a design, battleships, that stayed between the very early 1900s until the 90s in various forms and shapes proved its usefulness.