See thats the thing...No one can ever cover that much water, never had, never will...
We did it because whereever we were we owned that area of the ocean from the bottom depths to 250 nm up...
China doesn’t have the foresight to build the kind of intelligence, hardware or training of personnel to do that...
We will always have that ability, even if we cut back the US Navy in half...
But lets try to encourage the government to not do that...
“We will always have that ability, even if we cut back the US Navy in half...”
Agreed, but can we be at all places at all times? The USN is a global navy positioned against several major regional threats. The PLAN only needs to secure the Western Pacific.
Right now, we have 1 CVN in the Western Pacific at any given time. As our national strength erodes, the ability of the USN to sustain power projection will erode accordingly due only only to lack of funds for maintenance and training, but also due to the increasing number of threats that would crop up all over the world.