An Assessment of U.S. Military Power - U.S. Navy

The Heritage Foundation ^ | 10/5/17 | The Heritage Foundation

[NewJerseyJoe]

(Very long article, so I excerpted only the conclusions graphic)

[NewJerseyJoe]

Pathetic. It takes a long while to build up a worthy naval force -- but it can be degraded relatively quickly. Now see the results of eight years of Obama turning the military into a giant mess of social experiments.

[econjack]

Now see the results of eight years of Obama turning the military into a giant mess of social experiments.

Worst president ever...including Carter.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The good news is that eight years of Obama leadership made the world so peaceful that we don’t need any navy at all. I don’t see any dangers on the world stage. Do you?

[allendale]

Merit, competence and seamanship has been sacrificed on the altar of diversity. The commissars have taken control of the military.

[knarf]

I never thought of it before this post but ....

I've never heard President Trump tout the re-emergence of the naval shipyards.

Do we still need and use ocean going war machines and shouldn't THIS be one of the "Let's make American steel again" priorities ?

[GMMC0987]

Obama should have given a speech from one of the patrol boats that surrendered to the Iranians with a bit “Misson Accomplished” banner in the background.

[freedumb2003]

i>"The good news is that eight years of Obama leadership made the world so peaceful that we don’t need any navy at all. I don’t see any dangers on the world stage. Do you?

In fact, here is a recent satellite picture of the Earth, showing just how OK everything is:

[depressed in 06]

Marginal is better than weak?

[Mariner]

Oh, they forgot that graphic, with supporting narrative of how the US Navy can defeat all the world’s other Navies simultaneously.

Only fools subscribe to such fear mongering.

[Redwood71]

“I’ve never heard President Trump tout the re-emergence of the naval shipyards.”

Campaign promise:

“As soon as I take office I will ask Congress to fully eliminate the defense sequester and will submit a new budget to rebuild our military. It is so depleted. We will rebuild our military.”

So he has to see the end of any of Obama’s messes to get it done.

“Do we still need and use ocean going war machines”

Naval dominance is a vital part of military strategy because ships can patrol international waters, extending the United States’ reach far beyond the country’s physical borders. The Navy also allows key elements of the United States’ arsenal, such as nuclear weapons and aircraft groups, to be located off of U.S. soil, preventing the military from being crippled by a few major attacks to the U.S. mainland. Additionally, we are already using Navy fired weapons around the world.

For instance, the U.S. Navy launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles early Friday in Syria at a military airfield in response to a chemical-weapons attack on civilians, U.S. military officials said, relying on a mainstay weapon when the Pentagon wants to attack from a safe distance. The Tomahawk has been a critical part of U.S. warfare since the Persian Gulf War in 1991 and commonly carries a 1,000-pound warhead. It was used by the Pentagon when the military launched Tomahawks from the Red Sea at three coastal radar sites in Yemen. Before that, the United States used them in September 2014 as the country expanded its air war against militants from Iraq into Syria. The Pentagon said at the time that it launched 47 Tomahawks from two ships — the USS Philippine Sea in the Persian Gulf and the USS Arleigh Burke in the Red Sea — and hit sites used by what it called the Khorasan Group, an Islamist cell said to be linked to al-Qaeda. And these are not all of the strikes that have been accomplished by ship board attack capacity.

Military Sealift Command is a special part of the Navy, because it conducts seaborne transportation of supplies for every branch of the U.S. military. Dry goods and fuel are carried on massive cargo ships and tankers throughout the world, wherever the United States military needs them. The old riding shotgun thing.

Are they needed? You bet.

rwood

[vooch]

must be budget time again

[knarf]

Thank you.

[Cen-Tejas]

....the “fighting, bleeding and dying Navy personnel” of WWII do not exist today so even 350 ships is an impossible fantasy to man and operate successfully not only because of money (a whole nuther long story) but because of PCCBS (Politically Correct Cancerous Bull Shit).................within the ranks equivalent to stage 4 cancer brought on by too many YEARS, if not DECADES, of across the isle collusion by the UNI PARTY including as many rubber spined and corrupt RINO’s as hardcore Democrats.

Evidence of PCCBS is everywhere. Ships routinely run into other HUGE ships with hideous fatalities with little accountability if any in most cases, Admirals and Captains fired regularly for all sorts of moral deficiencies, women in combat, women on ships, pregnancy explosion on ships, trans genders, murderous ROE’s run amok and on and on....., endlessly.

All of this is due in no small part to DECADES of liberal, PCCBS tinkering by pitifully ignorant, corrupt politicians in a Military Organization that Democrats and RINOs have no credibility even commenting on much less voting on policy.

Mattis, Trump et al have now recognized the moral decline of the TOP RANKS of the officer corp and are initiating programs to combat that sickness but that process will take decades and that’s IF future UniParty administrations don’t kill it.

Only a Pearl Harbor type attack times ten on the US Navy will wake up the civilian power structure that ruthlessly controls and manipulates it. We’re in a DEEP SLEEP and even Trump probably can’t wake us up.

[sparklite2]

There is no category between marginal and strong.
How peculiar.

[JimRed]

There is no category between marginal and strong. How peculiar.

Maybe we should label that slot "mostly effective"?

[familyop]

I’m guessing that the situation will be far more intense in about 2 or 3 years, if that. Nuclear forces in Russia and China are being built up fast for the day when either North Korea or Iran launches for the purpose of giving Russia and China excuses to do the same.

Those communist/fascist nations want us out of the way. They want to expand and take over the world. Without expansion, the ruling parties in those countries will lose control of their people.

[PIF]

[familyop]

"Merit, competence and seamanship has been sacrificed on the altar of diversity. The commissars have taken control of the military."

That's a good reminder that we'll need to draft and train a million commissars to assure that our tens of millions of draftees trained to participate in human waves will keep running toward the human waves of the other communist nations and not toward the rear.

The commissars with machine guns to stop deserters will, of course, all be men, as it is with those communist police states trying to compete with our communist police state. The women will all go to the units that will prepare to carry out attacks in waves, where they will be programmed to participate while carrying lighter weapons.