[Peace-discuss] [sf-core] Awareness of U.S. war-making, 2015.39

[C. G. Estabrook]

The US military from WWII has relied on aircraft carriers rather than battleships.

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!)

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. 

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).

—CGE


> On Sep 29, 2015, at 7:49 PM, Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Roger
>  
> 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 Dispatch.com <http://dispatch.com/>
>  
> From: karenaram at hotmail.com <mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>
> To: rwhelbig at gmail.com <mailto:rwhelbig at gmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [Peace-discuss] [sf-core] Awareness of U.S. war-making, 2015.39
> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 07:51:03 -0500
> 
> 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.
>  
> Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 05:40:01 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [sf-core] Awareness of U.S. war-making, 2015.39
> From: rwhelbig at gmail.com <mailto:rwhelbig at gmail.com>
> To: karenaram at hotmail.com <mailto:karenaram at hotmail.com>
> 
> 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. - 
> 
> They last served during the Gulf War in 1991.
> 
> Roger
> 

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