Robo
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Despite the fact that the US Navy has just under 300 ships, neo-con RINO Republicans and some war hawking Democrats claim America is in a woeful decline of world sea power and as they lobby BIG government for MORE, MORE, MORE Naval WMD, the facts remain as follows.
http://prospect.org/article/false-decline-us-navy
“The United States Navy currently operates eleven nuclear powered aircraft carriers. The oldest and least capable is faster, one third larger, and carries three times the aircraft of Admiral Kuznetsov, the largest carrier in the Russian Navy. Unlike China’s only aircraft carrier, the former Russian Varyag, American carriers have engines and are capable of self-propulsion. The only carrier in Indian service is fifty years old and a quarter the size of its American counterparts. No navy besides the United States' has more than one aircraft carrier capable of flying modern fixed wing aircraft. The United States enjoys similar dominance in surface combat vessels and submarines, operating twenty-two cruisers, fifty destroyers, fifty-five nuclear attack submarines, and ten amphibious assault ships (vessels roughly equivalent to most foreign aircraft carriers). In every category the U.S. Navy combines presumptive numerical superiority with a significant ship-to-ship advantage over any foreign navy.
This situation is unlikely to change anytime soon. The French Navy and the Royal Navy will each expand to two aircraft carriers over the next decade. The most ambitious plans ascribed to the People’s Liberation Army Navy call for no more than three aircraft carriers by 2020, and even that strains credulity, given China’s inexperience with carrier operations and the construction of large military vessels. While a crash construction program might conceivably give the Chinese the ability to achieve local dominance (at great cost and for a short time), the United States Navy will continue to dominate the world’s oceans and littorals for at least the next fifty years. “
http://prospect.org/article/false-decline-us-navy
And just think Ronald Reagan was working toward a 600 ship Navy. Along with his White House drinking buddy, {Democrat Speaker Of The House), Tip O’Neal, who traded Reagan taxpayer’s loot for his 600 ship Navy for taxpayer’s loot for Tip’s expansion of the social welfare state. Together they damn near tripled the national debt.
http://prospect.org/article/false-decline-us-navy
“The United States Navy currently operates eleven nuclear powered aircraft carriers. The oldest and least capable is faster, one third larger, and carries three times the aircraft of Admiral Kuznetsov, the largest carrier in the Russian Navy. Unlike China’s only aircraft carrier, the former Russian Varyag, American carriers have engines and are capable of self-propulsion. The only carrier in Indian service is fifty years old and a quarter the size of its American counterparts. No navy besides the United States' has more than one aircraft carrier capable of flying modern fixed wing aircraft. The United States enjoys similar dominance in surface combat vessels and submarines, operating twenty-two cruisers, fifty destroyers, fifty-five nuclear attack submarines, and ten amphibious assault ships (vessels roughly equivalent to most foreign aircraft carriers). In every category the U.S. Navy combines presumptive numerical superiority with a significant ship-to-ship advantage over any foreign navy.
This situation is unlikely to change anytime soon. The French Navy and the Royal Navy will each expand to two aircraft carriers over the next decade. The most ambitious plans ascribed to the People’s Liberation Army Navy call for no more than three aircraft carriers by 2020, and even that strains credulity, given China’s inexperience with carrier operations and the construction of large military vessels. While a crash construction program might conceivably give the Chinese the ability to achieve local dominance (at great cost and for a short time), the United States Navy will continue to dominate the world’s oceans and littorals for at least the next fifty years. “
http://prospect.org/article/false-decline-us-navy
And just think Ronald Reagan was working toward a 600 ship Navy. Along with his White House drinking buddy, {Democrat Speaker Of The House), Tip O’Neal, who traded Reagan taxpayer’s loot for his 600 ship Navy for taxpayer’s loot for Tip’s expansion of the social welfare state. Together they damn near tripled the national debt.