Posted on 04/11/2007 6:18:49 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
There is an urgent problem that Britain's Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy share: Both forces are dangerously inadequate in today's geopolitical environment. And the immediacy of this challenge is being overlooked.
We need to move past the all too comfortable approach of talking about those shortfalls of naval force levels as if they are approaching problems. The problems are here now, and the situations' seriousness should be clear to anyone who can count, has access to a globe, recognizes that not all of a nation's naval units can be deployed simultaneously and grasps the fact that even the most powerful ship or aircraft cannot be in more than one place at one time.
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the author is an idiot.........
China is pushing to create a powerful navy. They want it as fast as they can get it. The US is lacking urgency, which is a shame.
A navy too small will have to go to the big stuff (read nukes) much sooner in a conflict, which may or may not be a good thing.
Frankly. I don’t care who likes us, so long as everyone FEARS us!
Building the ships is the easy part. Building the shipyard we closed is hard. Training the shipyard workers is hard, training the crews is hard.
Jack
Meant building the shipyards!! We need MANY!!
Jack
You can help by joining the Navy League.
We have had a 3 mission navy for over 40 years now, with the option to fight a limited 4th mission......the author is in the same group of people who say our military is overstretched...... create some hype in order to achieve isolationismn....the author is an idiot
I think there is some truth to his report. Our navy used to have 600 ships, now at 276. China prolly doesn’t need a big navy to take care of ours. New antiship missiles can easily take care of our carriers. Their new subs are quiet and deadly. Our anti sub and anti mine warfare systems have seriously been degraded. Our bisexual navy is less capable and crippled by the weak female links in its anchor chains. The PC handcuffs of “rules of engagements” has turned all our forces into weak sisters on the battlefields, including the seas, witness the Cole incident. We are hampered by an 8000-mile-long screw driver that mismicromanages our conflicts from the Beltway. I have no confidence that our Navy could even effectively handle yard patrol.
We will pay in blood tomorrow for the mistakes which we make today. I’ll probably be dead, but my grandchildren will still be here. And yours.
The U. S. Navy on site in the Red Sea is important in keeping the Iranians at bay. Any further action can be
done by the Air Force.
Well, we could always pull some of the older destroyers out of mothballs to bring up the numbers. They won’t need all that modern crap, like radar and stuff... explain to me how an anti-ship missile would get to a carrier, details please, and by the way, the Cole was hit by a suicide bomber while it was tied up at a pier, not out at sea with all systems operating. Exactly how many combat ships have we lost to enemy action since the end of WW2?
“China is pushing to create a powerful navy. They want it as fast as they can get it. The US is lacking urgency, which is a shame.”
It’s worse than that. The US is comatose.
The sky is falling! Oh woe is us! Tell you what: If the Chinese figure out how to replenish their ships underway---and become a true blue water navy---I'll get concerned. Not much, though, because I know that the United States Navy can and will destroy any naval "threat" on the water.Your last line is particularly offensive. I'll be sure to let my brother know what you think when I see him next month---after he gets back from his third tour of duty establishing unquestioned air superiority over places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia.
No he is not, we need more ships.
Sorry buddy, quality, not quantity.....when we went into iraq in the early 90’s, saddam had more men, guns and tanks then we had.....took a whole 4 days to kick his a$$ into submission...as I said, we have had a 3 mission navy for 40 years now, with a limited capacity for a 4th at the same time.....what we really need is to get rid of the ‘60’s era hippies in our government, THAT would be all the improvement our military would need
But you should write to the Secretary of the Navy and tell him not to worry.
I am glad you agree with me. The hippies have got to go
Except the Air Force is being used to replace the Naval forces we’ve withdrawn from the Pacific.
I remind you that a quiet Chinese submarine surfaced undetected within the security zone of a US carrier last fall. It caused Admiral Fallon to soil his trousers.
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