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Thats extreme. Its not that the US shouldn't have a blue-water navy. Just that it shouldn't have a useless, expensive, dangerous one: which is what it has rig
by fit2rule 10y ago
Thats extreme. Its not that the US shouldn't have a blue-water navy. Just that it shouldn't have a useless, expensive, dangerous one: which is what it has right now, at least in the case of war.
(I'll concede one thing, carriers are useful in times of non-war: as a policing force and threat to lesser nations ..)
- sirtaj 10y agoIt didn't work in 1971, when Nixon deployed the Enterprise and the rest of Task Force 74 to the Bay of Bengal to intimidate India during the war with Pakistan. All it took was a couple of Soviet submarines to call their bluff.