Re: New US Aircraft Carrier is a Piece of Junk and Double Cost
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Date: July 24, 2017 03:39PM
National Defense University Wrote:
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> compensating for something Wrote:
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> > I laugh heartely everytime I hear one of these
> GOP
> > idiots claim the military needs to be
> "rebuilt".
> > It's such an obscene lie, it should be illegal.
> We
> > spend more than the next 8 militaries behind us
> > COMBINED in defense spending and even are most
> > formidable adversaries still can't measure up,
> > even if they were to join forces against us.
> > China's got one new carrier, but it's
> experimental
> > and would need considerable ground based
> support
> > to even keep a US admiral awake at night. The
> only
> > way the Russians can compete is by conducting
> > surprise land grabs and cover their trails
> using
> > cyber attacks. If anything, we need to curtail
> > some of our spending, specifically by
> downgrading
> > our aircraft carrier fleet. There really is no
> > need for 13 aircraft carriers.
>
>
> You seem blithely unaware of the concept and
> benefits of overwhelming military superiority that
> arose after having to fight two world wars.
I am very aware of this concept as I studied at naval post grad school in Monterey. Can you tell me what other navies are capable of the same blue water capability the United States is? Probably not, so I will tell you. The only two that even have the remotest chance of matching our power projection capabilities are the French and the British, and they are allies. Russia has one carrier beat to shit and as mentioned before the Chinese are only beginning to a carrier program of its own. Their fleet will no doubt enlarge with time, but the Japanese are building ASW carriers of their own and the Koreans are talking about developing their own to counteract them.
The days of swashbuckling en masse on the two largest bodies of water in the world are over. We simply cannot sustain that kind of mentality any longer. A lot has been made of the extreme costs of developing the F-35, which I will relent is completely and totally necessary. It's important that we maintain optimum operational capability to maintain air superiority.