[TruthNtegrity]

China's submarine force is larger than the US', and "in the year 2025, they'll have three times [as many as the US] at the rate we're doing business," Konetzni told the base closing commission hearing.

What Vern Clark is doing/has done in down-sizing the US Navy disgusts me more than I can voice here.

[Paul Ross]

I don't blame Vern Clark. He is a former submarine guy too. But he was given a budget that was ridiculously low, and told "recapitalize and transform your branch of the service."

He was snookered, he squeezed all of the savings out of every sector...including the sub force rebuild rate, having been promised that it would be made up with procurements later. Instead, The savings were duly reported. And then Wolfowitz and Rummy zeroed out those savings, and did not raise the procurement funds.

Vernon Clark deserves our pity, not contempt. He was lied to, by people who he should have been able to trust. In effect, the Administration is lying to the Country. And it won't be apparent to the unwashed SHeeple until its too late. And then they will ask "Where did our SuperPower country go?"