[CrawDaddyCA]

I'd give it 15 years...tops. They are launching destroyers that are comparable to our Burke's, and they are rapidly trying to form up carrier battle groups. It's almost like the late 1930's all over again, funny how history repeats itself.

We will see a war on a scale incomparable to any other conflict in the worlds history, and it scares the hell out of me.

Jeff Head's 'Dragon Fury' series gives us a brief glimpse of what it'll be like, but I fear it'll be far worse than anything imaginable.

[tigtog]

We currently have 12 Carrier Task Forces. They currenty have none. They currently have no blue water submarine escorts for a carrier. How in the hell do you figure in 15 years they overcome those technological and numerical inferiorities? No way. For a Navy to be compentent, it needs to exercise at least one generation of Officers and sailors in a modern navy setting. Currently they do not have one generation of competent Officers and sailors on deck. Remember, I didn't note any of their shortfalls in satellite reconnaissance.