Posted on 11/13/2016 9:00:58 AM PST by Kaslin
Go Navy bump
And the Air Force, and the Marines, and the Army......
Get rid of that ridiculous “green fleet” crap
I believe Trump will take a Sawsall to the entire military procurement process. He’s known for delivering ahead of schedule and under budget.
4 more carrier groups please.
Its not so much rebuilding our military, but the fact that the Pentagon needs to be changed & transformed to improve readiness to deal with with China, Russia, ISIS, etc
The defense secretary pick will be critical - will we get a GOPe stooge like Ayotte or someone who will transform the Pentagon.
Before you rebuild you need to reform defense acquisition. No one in DOD likes it. They just despair as to whether anything can be done.
Carriers are the 21st century equivalent of the battleship.
Obsolete $10B targets with new classes of anti-ship missiles.
It can. Send the scum to Ft. Leavenworth and the rest will wise up
“Carriers are the 21st century equivalent of the battleship.
Obsolete $10B targets with new classes of anti-ship missiles.”
If it’s all-out war with an advanced enemy, then there’s something to be said for that.
However, in conflicts like Vietnam and the Gulf Wars, they are indispensable.
Agreed but they are gorgeous, intimidating and job building.
Not until we have aircraft with a range long enough to put multi-billion dollar carriers out of range of Chinese shore based anti-ship missiles.
God, I hope so. Acquisitions for DoD is shameful. Needs big reform, and there are people with really good ideas about that reform — but the politics and the money always get in the way. I really hope Trump can fix it and give us more stuff for less money. It’s doable, but may not get done.
Dominion over the sea lanes of communication has always been the key to power.
The Navy should receive 1/2 of all new military spending until they can put 100 Destroyers and 50 attack subs to sea at the same time and as a matter of normal deployment rotations.
And we must be able to sustain 4 Carrier battle groups on continuous deployment, again as part of normal rotations.
And be able to surge to 300 destroyers, 100 subs and 9 Battle Groups within 45 days.
Lest we lose the nation.
Get women off the ships
“Obsolete $10B targets with new classes of anti-ship missiles.”
You need to refresh your knowledge.
That may have been true 20 years ago, but not now.
The group that surrounds any Carrier at sea is more than capable of negating missile swarm attacks...especially when they know the resulting offensive response.
To expend such enormous resources and not succeed would be a military disaster for any nation so foolhardy as to attempt it.
Sure there is corruption, but also there is just good old fashioned bureaucratic ineptitude.
Correct.
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