And also pertinent given the current discussion about NATO’s readiness.
the war between Russia and Ukraine seems to prove both are worthless in todays’ world.
Sounds like a saying I used to hear when I was over in US Army Europe. I don’t know if it was true or not, but the saying was that there were more generals in Europe than there were machine gunners
2 aircraft carriers
6 destroyers
8 frigates
8 or 9 subs.
The Royal Navy has decent capabilities for its size, which isn’t much.
I thought that was the US Navy.
That’s just embarrassing. Our military is ridiculously top heavy and bloated with over forty 4 stars with a total military of about 1.3 million. For comparison’s sake we had 7 in World War II with a military over 10 times the size of our current one.
Good that islamists don’t have access to a useful navy.
We have 44 four star generals now. During WWII we had 5.
The U.S. Navy has the same problem. The same U.S. Naval Proceedings issue which lists the commissioned ships also has the pictures of all its admirals.