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"The (smaller, faster, cheaper) future of sea power; We have the world's largest navy. They have speedboats and machine guns. What now?" by Drake Bennett | April 19, 2009
.... Perhaps nowhere is American military dominance clearer than in its Navy. As large as the 13 next largest navies combined, it boasts 11 aircraft carriers to Russia's one - the Chinese navy, despite its rapid recent growth, has none. While most nations' navies restrict themselves to patrolling territorial waters, the American Navy rules the open seas, steaming forth from bases around the globe.
So it is NOT ABOUT DEFENSE, folks! It's about EMPIRE!!!!!
That's what the TRILLIONS in WAR LOOT is ALL ABOUT!!!!
The size and structure of the Navy are legacies of the Cold War. Overwhelming naval power, American strategists thought, was vital to countering the superiority of Soviet ground forces in Europe - in theory it would allow the United States and its NATO allies not only to overwhelm the far smaller Soviet navy, but to take the fight to the Soviet homeland with carrier-based planes. At the same time, our fleet of nuclear-missile-armed submarines wandered the world's oceans to ensure that even a devastating nuclear attack on the United States wouldn't wipe out our ability to respond in kind.
And they are STILL OUT THERE as we LECTURE North Korea and IRAN and IGNORE ISRAEL!!!
This mission was offensive, rather than defensive....
What a RARE ADMISSION that STILL STANDS TODAY!!!!
Others worry that an undue focus on asymmetric threats could obscure other increasingly symmetrical threats. "I also think we've got to keep focus on the big picture," says Ron Christenson, a retired rear admiral who's now an executive at Lockheed Martin. And the big picture, he and others argue, is China.
"They're announcing they're going to go big, with submarines, aircraft carriers, and long-range missiles," he says. "And that threatens only one major power in the world, and that's us."
--more--"Maybe it is WE who are THREATENING EVERYONE, Nazi!!!
