Being a global policeman requires lots of upkeep.
Never ending funding increases for a military that is becoming less and less viable in offense and defense.
Your tax money being wasted by Democrats and Republicans to enrich contractors that deliver late and over-budget.
...and nobody cares.
Go to youtube and search for Tofu Dredge. Hundreds of videos will appear of the shoddy construction standards of China.
Fr downtown Beijing-
today’s pro China nonsense.
The Chinese are advanced ship builders!
Day 1002 of no Taiwan takeover despite being promised such dozens of times.
Day 26 still no follow up to the obv fake Irannian attack.
Week 2 no nukes that maybe were going to be launched last week.
But we have the Village People so it’s all good
Seeing as how we have gutted the “esprit de corps” of our military, one can only hope that we maintain a technical advantage.
I worry that we are sharing all of our advancements with our enemies.
We appear weak. I hope we are not.
My bad-
China is putting out 232 ships to the US 1.
I can’t even come up with something sarcastic that reaches the realms of stupidity it takes to believe the above nonsense.
But we excel in diversity!
Army Withdraws from the Pacific and Indian Ocean | Army Plans to Lay Up its Prepositioning Fleet
AI says 20 ships a year in 17yards.
Leaving the US capacity at less than one ship every ten years.
That sounds about right similar to nukes being launched in weeks sounded about right.
Not their biggest problem. There is a leadership cancer at the top.
Yeah, OK, so what? ‘Cause I just KNOW china don’t be as woke as we be! And not as gay friendly!
““Such stumbling blocks are hobbling the US’ defense posture against its near-peer adversary, China, whose shipbuilding capacity has surged beyond the US, with China’s shipbuilding capacity 232 times greater than that of the US.“”
Source: Single slide leaked by unknown person.
““The [People’s Liberation Army] navy has been on a historic trajectory these last 25 years, and while we are, I am, confident that we would prevail in combat,” Adm. Samuel Paparo, Jr., commander for U.S. Pacific Fleet, told senators Thursday. “We are not overmatched, but I don’t like the pace of the trajectory.””
Don’t buy it from the Asia Times, our Navy still the best in the world ie, aircraft carriers, submarines, guided missile frigates, cruisers, supply ships, etc. Our problem is the leadership with their WOKE mentality.
Burned up, dockside, San Diego, surrounded by fire fighting resources and several hundred men and women . . . but also many frocked ego's.
A lost opportunity for educating firefighters - with a ship not in combat - a relic that should have been towed down the bay and beached, for future fire-fighting training.
The U.S. could double the number of ships - that results in maybe 10 more that "somehow manage to be well-built" . . . but the U.S. cannot increase military leaders who are NOT political officers constantly fighting over the definitions:
What is a man?
What is a woman?
In the 21st Century, air power wins naval battles, and the US has been running 24-hour all-weather carrier ops longer than anyone else on the planet.
In comparison, China has had “blue water” carriers, what, 15 minutes?