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Bear in mind, though, that the US Navy operates in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean and occasionally Arctic. The US Navy o
by i_am_proteus 8y ago
Bear in mind, though, that the US Navy operates in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans, as well as the Mediterranean and occasionally Arctic. The US Navy often operates far from US naval port facilities.
The Chinese fleet is concentrated almost entirely in the Western Pacific, near its naval ports.
- stcredzero 8y agoThe US faces many of the logistic and economic challenges the British faced when they ruled the world's oceans.
- olivermarks 8y agoAgree, further complicated by NATO and other alliances which arguably make the US forces a mercenary tool for the enforcement of the global ultra wealthy's agenda over defense of the USA as a nation state, alongside Halliburton, Erik Prince's mercenary armies etc etc
- king_magic 8y agoExcept it’s also 100 years later, and we’re much, much better at it than the British ever were.
- lurquer 8y agoThe air support for the US Navy, on the other hand, is slightly better than the Royal Air Force of 1890. And, the ICBMs, satellites, and submarines are a tad bit more sophisticated. Other than that, though, your analysis is spot on. (Well, to be fair, the US Navy has made some remarkable inroads with the whole scurvey thing...)
- stcredzero 8y agoI hope we don't also forget how we beat scurvy, then have to rediscover it.
- AlexCoventry 8y agoI hear vitamins cause autism in sailors.