[Rokke]

"You don't put blue water navy in a situation where it has to run narrow straits in order to get out to the open ocean."

So I guess you are suggesting we should stop all our Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea operations. That is brilliant. I'm sure we'll have no problems supporting operations in the Middle East if we just limit our Navy to operating in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

The ignorance displayed in threads like these is phenomenal.

[FerdieMurphy]

...we should stop all our Persian Gulf and Mediterranean Sea operations.

We need a supply scheme that makes more sense than trusting muslims to help us in our war against their Koran-reading brethern.

What's not brilliant is the blind trust that some appear to have when it comes to the UAE!