Ah, serves the zoomies right. What goes around comes around.
Wasn’t it the Air Force General Spaatz who once said “what do we need the Navy for anyway?”
The zoomies need to be taken down a notch. They (not just Spaatz) used to throw the idea around that they could replace the Navy. Their bombers have the range to overfly the oceans, etc.
Why should we have a Navy at all? The Russians have little or no Navy; the Japanese Navy has been sunk, the navies of the rest of the world are negligible; the Germans never did have much of a Navy. The point I am getting at is who is the big Navy being planned to fight.
There are no enemies for it to fight except apparently the Army Air Force. In this day and age to talk of fighting the next war on the oceans is a ridiculous assumption. The only reason for us to have a Navy is just because someon else has a Navy and we certainly do not need to wast money on that.
Spaatz was wrong but who can see the future? Certainly not the fella that wrote this article for this thread.
As I said earlier the problem is we don't let our forces, any of them, do what they are trained to do. We've become to PC.