[sukhoi-30mki]

The Royal Navy's largest ever warship HMS 'Queen Elizabeth' is floated out of its dock for the first time in Rosyth, Scotland, July 2014.

Wikipedia/Creative Commons

[buckalfa]

Guns versus butter. Who will defend America and the western world when the bill comes due.

[PGR88]

Another reason why NATO is simply “security theater” - and a joke.

We have 28 trip-wires across Europe, but none serious about fighting or the will to defend themselves. A very dangerous combination.

NATO is just another ponderous government bureaucracy that won’t die, so its become just part of the vast leftist-progressive social engineering apparatus that is Europe today.

[Organic Panic]

Don’t vote for liberal progressives.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

The fastest, effective solution to this is not found in the hardware, but in the training and experience of crewmen, which is as important.

In effect, the US Navy should integrate lots of UK Navy Reservists to serve aboard US ships. To insure their active duty personnel also get training, there should be a rapid back and forth transition in the UK Navy between active duty and reserves. At home, they are on active duty. Attached to US ships, they are reservists.

Most of the costs for this should be met by the US, with the idea that because reservists are paid much less, the UK could substantially expand its number of naval personnel.

The ships for this greatly expanded Navy are semi-mothballed, able to head to sea with a trained crew in much less time.

[ro_dreaming]

My God, that looks positively tiny.

[vetvetdoug]

If we get someone other than Hillary, Mabus will be gone and the Navy can begin to rebuild itself. If Mabus stays the Navy is doomed.