<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">The US military from WWII has relied on aircraft carriers rather than battleships.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The US has ten in service and two in reserve; no other nation has more than two (and the only countries that have two are - remarkably enough - Italy and India!)<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Some argue that recent advances in missile technology by Russia and China have actually made carriers obsolete - they’d be destroyed by missiles at the outset of hostilities. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It does seem that the US military doctrine of "full spectrum dominance” nevertheless relies primarily on aircraft and now drones - which is why the 1,000 US bases (around the perimeter of Eurasia) are so important (and should be opposed).</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">—CGE</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 29, 2015, at 7:49 PM, Karen Aram <<a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com" class="">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">Roger<br class=""> <br class="">To clarify: "With US military bases arrayed around the continents perimeter", meaning Eurasia, with our military forces ringing the S. China Sea, " the US Navy controlling the Malacca Straits", whether by way of our military base in Singapore or one in Malaysia, "the US has a vast armada of cruisers, carriers, drones, fighters, and submarines." See: Alfred McCoy, Washington's Great Game and Why It's Failing". Tom<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://dispatch.com/" class="">Dispatch.com</a><br class=""> <br class=""><div class=""><hr id="stopSpelling" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com" class="">karenaram@hotmail.com</a><br class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:rwhelbig@gmail.com" class="">rwhelbig@gmail.com</a><br class="">Subject: RE: [Peace-discuss] [sf-core] Awareness of U.S. war-making, 2015.39<br class="">Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 07:51:03 -0500<br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Maybe my reference to "battleships" is inaccurate, but we do have military ships capable of attacking in the S. China sea. They aren't cargo or tourist ships.<br class=""> <br class=""><div class=""><hr id="ecxstopSpelling" class="">Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 05:40:01 -0700<br class="">Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [sf-core] Awareness of U.S. war-making, 2015.39<br class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:rwhelbig@gmail.com" class="">rwhelbig@gmail.com</a><br class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com" class="">karenaram@hotmail.com</a><br class=""><br class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Do you know that there are no Battleships in commission at present - all of them from the Iowa class, the last ones which were built in WW-II, are now museum ships - USS Iowa is in Los Angeles Harbor, USS Missouri at Pearl Harbor, USS Wisconsin in Norfolk, Virginia and USS New Jersey at Camden, New Jersey. - <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They last served during the Gulf War in 1991.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Roger</div></div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></div></body></html>