Report Card for Donald Trump

[Warren Dew]

(01-28-2017, 04:30 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:

Quote:Agreed.  We left a big power vacuum on the high seas for half a decade; we need to avoid another half decade of that if we're to retain our preeminent global position.

It's worse than that.  The post-Cold War draw-down in the 90s, and the distraction of the GWoT during the 2000s, ended up shedding a lot of capabilities we used to train regularly, that are needed for great power politics as opposed to police actions.

I think I agree but I am interested in what examples you are thinking of.  The kinds of things the Seawolf class was intended to address?  The F-22?  Or things more general?