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The US faces many of the logistic and economic challenges the British faced when they ruled the world's oceans.
by stcredzero 7y ago
The US faces many of the logistic and economic challenges the British faced when they ruled the world's oceans.
- olivermarks 7y 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 7y agoExcept it’s also 100 years later, and we’re much, much better at it than the British ever were.
- lurquer 7y 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 7y agoI hope we don't also forget how we beat scurvy, then have to rediscover it.
- AlexCoventry 7y agoI hear vitamins cause autism in sailors.