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Being a Navy vet myself, I have to wonder about what I’m seeing from the Trump agenda concerning a rebuild of the military.
I’ve ask this question several times in the past without any satisfactory answers coming from anyone on a political forum, old Navy vet friends, or letters to my congress critters. Why does America have and keep consistently in commission 11 nuclear powered aircraft carriers and sometimes just 10 in commission and now Trump is calling for a 12 nuclear carrier Navy and a whole new class of nuke carriers?
As far as I can determine, the rest of the world combined only has 2 nuclear powered aircraft carriers, one in China and France has one. Why the American overkill?
Why aren’t the multi-billion dollar nuclear carriers simply sitting ducks in a world of highly technological weaponry?
As far as I know, it takes at least a dozen other ships just to protect the carrier and it takes over 2000 crew mwmbers for a single carrier.
What in hell is “conservative” about a dozen nuclear powered aircraft carriers?
Because words don't have much meaning anymore. For example, the word "Defense". This isn't defending our country. Like you said, it's hegemony.
Back when Rome ruled most of the known world they had a "defense only" policy as well. And they "defended" their borders all the way to England. They kept using defense as the excuse to keep being on offense. This is where we are at. That and this president already said he knows more than the generals. This is just him thumping his chest with machismo howling... yet again.