[faithhopecharity]

That’s about enough of a navy to maybe defend Canandaigua Lake.

[skeeter]

Looks like the US is well on its way to achieving Obama's goal of no combat effective task forces available.

All those dormant flattops will make great section 8 housing for the underprivileged.

[man_in_tx]

Shades of the fading British Empire about 55 years ago.

[Signalman]

All part of the left’s plan to put the U.S. on an equal footing with other nations.

It’s just not “fair” for us to have more military might than, say, Angola. What’s so special about us?

[Jet Jaguar]

Active Duty ping.

[bgill]

Hey, wouldn’t want to put our enemies out with too many targets.

[null and void]

Si vis pacem, para bellum

[skinkinthegrass]

Pearl Harbor again..credit: pResident 0'B@$t@rd.

[oldsalt]

I guess I can forget everything I ever learned...like “haze gray and underway.”,and the prime directive...”sailors belong on ships and ships belong at sea.”

[Chode]

...!!!

[Pan_Yan]

So two carrier task forces deployed at any given time means one off the East Coast and one off the West Coast, right?

No. It means one in the Western Pacific and one in the Indian Ocean / Persian Gulf region.

There is sonething fundamentally wrong with our foreign policy.

[clearcarbon]

If these cuts are occurring during a time of “economic recovery,” imagine what shape the armed services will be in at the next downturn.

[lee martell]

Mr. Hagel, you didn’t ask me, but, you’ll be sorry you allowed us to lower our defenses to this light level. The Chinese are doing the exact opposite.

[RaceBannon]

WHAT??????

[montanajoe]

At one time this would never fly the GOP congress critters would not allow it to happen.

So who in the GOP will say no..Cruz..Paul..somehow I doubt it.

[theBuckwheat]

The sad truth is that we cannot afford a military force that is the present size. If we demand that the federal government must stop spending money that it does not have, then the military will have to be downsized and all branches of the service will have to make painful choices.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

America really, really needs to bring back American manufacturing, to America.

Now.

Don’t buy stuff which is all made in China.

Just saying.

[FlingWingFlyer]

What do Barry and his ‘RATS call this? Oh yeah, “fundamental transformation”.

[kvanbrunt2]

However, from a strategic point, could we not maintain a fleet based on min max. Rotate the manpower around each battle group keeping the manpower at a optimal low and the rotated hardware at an optimal high with reserves being trained in the process.

[EternalVigilance]

War through weakness. It’s inevitable.