As Scott Ritter said there are only two types of navy ships built now . Submarines and targets . The American navy is primarily made up of massive steel coffins waiting to be sent to the bottom of the oceans. One or two aircraft carriers sitting on the ocean floor sends the other nine rushing back to safety which isn’t possible due to hyper glide missiles coming in at 7000 miles an hour from 500 miles away. Your navy just hasn’t been tested but when it is , it’s a past tense . Then you realize your coast guard is all you have . You concentrated on aircraft and carriers whereas the Russian worked on making them useless. The Chinese will eat up the US navy before it gets within 1000 miles .
I have a column coming up about submarines and how the RCN should be reshaped around them. That said, there are different phases of war and degrees of conflict.
Surface ships continue to play an essential role in foreign and military policy — especially for a global naval power. The first rule of gunboat diplomacy is: the nation you’re trying to influence has to see the gunboats.
Totally agree but the US has to get used to a multipolar world and the loss of the exorbitant privilege of the reserve currency which has bought its armed forces. The fear of invasion as in Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria won’t work any more ,even a rag tag Houthi army can frighten a world power country away who can’t take high casualties without massive social pressure from home.
As Scott Ritter said there are only two types of navy ships built now . Submarines and targets . The American navy is primarily made up of massive steel coffins waiting to be sent to the bottom of the oceans. One or two aircraft carriers sitting on the ocean floor sends the other nine rushing back to safety which isn’t possible due to hyper glide missiles coming in at 7000 miles an hour from 500 miles away. Your navy just hasn’t been tested but when it is , it’s a past tense . Then you realize your coast guard is all you have . You concentrated on aircraft and carriers whereas the Russian worked on making them useless. The Chinese will eat up the US navy before it gets within 1000 miles .
I have a column coming up about submarines and how the RCN should be reshaped around them. That said, there are different phases of war and degrees of conflict.
Surface ships continue to play an essential role in foreign and military policy — especially for a global naval power. The first rule of gunboat diplomacy is: the nation you’re trying to influence has to see the gunboats.
Totally agree but the US has to get used to a multipolar world and the loss of the exorbitant privilege of the reserve currency which has bought its armed forces. The fear of invasion as in Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria won’t work any more ,even a rag tag Houthi army can frighten a world power country away who can’t take high casualties without massive social pressure from home.