I have to call BS on that. I have been in Iraq since 2004. I spent two years next to the largest aitfield in the country. I have yet to see my first Navy plane in Iraq. My point is that the Navy is not actually fighting a nvaval war at the moment and they cannot stand up to the ChiCom Navy? Do we just give them the entire west Pacific if the Navy does have to fight a naval war at some point? It takes not only ships but also “cojones” to defend freedom of navigation, something our leadership is apparently lacking.
“Do we just give them the entire west Pacific if the Navy does have to fight a naval war at some point? “
That is basically what is happening. At some point, China’s industrialization was going to make them powerful enough to challenge our dominance in the western pacific. We are now at that point.