To: OPS4
Subs are not for diplomacy.
Subs are for when diplomacy is over.
Carriers make wonderful diplomatic statements.
The sight of a carrier on the horizon is a clear message to some tin-horn dictator that his time is ALMOST up.
39 posted on
10/11/2006 3:06:20 PM PDT by
Pukin Dog
(Being a Liberal is just a coping mechanism for low self esteem and/or bad parenting.)
To: Pukin Dog
The sight of a carrier on the horizon is a clear message to some tin-horn dictator that his time is ALMOST up. I doubt a carrier group would be in the area without a sub accompanying it.
50 posted on
10/11/2006 3:21:13 PM PDT by
EGPWS
(Lord help me be the conservative liberals fear I am.)
To: Pukin Dog
The sight of a carrier on the horizon is a clear message to some tin-horn dictator that his time is ALMOST up.Someone told me a horror story from the mid-1980s--apparently the National Security Council told the Navy to send a carrier within a few miles of the Lebanese coast to show Hezbullah who was boss.
The Hezzies were not impressed, and fired some artillery at the carrier, and actually managed to straddle it before the ship went to full speed ahead and got the hell out of there.
To: Pukin Dog
Yeah, its kind of difficult to engage in aggressive diplomacy with a weapon that is designed to be covert.
Keep em guessing PD! 8^)
82 posted on
10/11/2006 4:06:24 PM PDT by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
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