That is the entire Chinese team vs. our one strike force.
How quickly could we transfer other ships to the area?
That is the entire Chinese team vs. our one strike force.
How quickly could we transfer other ships to the area?
Not fast enough to stop an ass kicking.
The only real equalizer here IMO is nukes.
Chances are we already have other ships in the area. Particularly attack and guided missile submarines, which usually operate independently of carrier groups. And I think we usually have a few Aegis ships tasked with ballistic missile defense in the area too. And can certainly surge more.
We can deploy a LOT of airpower to Guam and Japan pretty quickly. But that moves them into the target zone for ChiCom ballistic missiles.
Oh, and the Navy is about to do a three-way deck swap with CVNs with Roosevelt, Washington and Reagan. Over the next several months there will be more CSGs available in the region than is normally the case.
And thats before factoring in the US’s qualitative superiority in just about all areas.
Iow, the chart may be “accurate” but it’s also BS.
“How quickly could we transfer other ships to the area?”
Judging from past military responses of the Current Regime, the ships would just never get there. It would be another “red line” that would simply disappear in the waters of the China Sea, much like the “red line” in the Ukraine, and in Syria, and in the negotiations with Iran concerning the number and kinds of uranium refining techniques they would cease to pursue.
The strike force now in the area would simply be sacrificed, or ordered to withdraw to Hawaii.
You people of Japan and the Philippines, you are on your own.
“That is the entire Chinese team vs. our one strike force.
How quickly could we transfer other ships to the area?”
That graphic is definitely not the whole picture, but it does indicate how the balance has been rapidly shifting.
The Chinese Navy is in the midst of buildup akin to something out of WWII - 50 100 ships per year.
They have fielded hypersonic missiles which were specifically designed to defeat our carriers, or keep them out of range. Their goal is to exclude the US and claim control of wide areas through the numbers, without actually having to fight. They will likely be installing missile batteries soon, if they are not there yet.
During the Clinton Administration, they got extensive intelligence on US vulnerabilities, and the specific technologies to attack them. They revised their investment strategies exactly against US weaknesses, and have now fielded a lot of that capability.
Clinton also got them admitted into the World Trade Organization, so that they were able to make the money to fund their massive buildup.
We can expect similar, or probably worse, sellouts of our National interests under a Hillary Administration. The Clintons may have grown rich like Ferdinand Marcos through public corruption (a few billion), but I believe that they want to become rich like Vladimir Putin (tens of billions).
You are assuming that the CINC would even authorize an engagement.
Is that before or after the world`s incinerated in a nuclear holocaust?
Also it would be good to get india in as well