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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Thanks for this Carl, I need to absorb the terminology for what I view as "boats with weapons". Your statement:<br><BR><div><strong>"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)."</strong></div><div> </div><div> is of most importance.</div><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 20:45:21 -0500<br>To: karenaram@hotmail.com<br>CC: peace-discuss@anti-war.net<br>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [sf-core] Awareness of U.S. war-making, 2015.39<br>From: peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net<br><br>The US military from WWII has relied on aircraft carriers rather than battleships.<div><br></div><div>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><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br><div>—CGE</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote><div>On Sep 29, 2015, at 7:49 PM, Karen Aram <<a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="ecxApple-interchange-newline"><div><div style="font: 16px/normal Calibri; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; word-spacing: 0px; white-space: normal;" dir="ltr">Roger<br> <br>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="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://dispatch.com/" target="_blank">Dispatch.com</a><br> <br><div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">From:<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a><br>To:<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:rwhelbig@gmail.com">rwhelbig@gmail.com</a><br>Subject: RE: [Peace-discuss] [sf-core] Awareness of U.S. war-making, 2015.39<br>Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 07:51:03 -0500<br><br><div dir="ltr">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> <br><div><hr id="ecxstopSpelling">Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 05:40:01 -0700<br>Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [sf-core] Awareness of U.S. war-making, 2015.39<br>From:<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:rwhelbig@gmail.com">rwhelbig@gmail.com</a><br>To:<span class="ecxApple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:karenaram@hotmail.com">karenaram@hotmail.com</a><br><br><div dir="ltr">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><br></div><div>They last served during the Gulf War in 1991.</div><div><br></div><div>Roger</div></div><div class="ecxgmail_extra"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________
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