Does Biden Have the Right Naval Strategy to Take on Russia and China? History Has an Answer.

[rangerrebew]

Does Biden Have the Right Naval Strategy to Take on Russia and China? History Has an Answer.
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By James Holmes
June 17, 2021
U.S. Navy photo by MC2 Nathan T. Beard

This week Chief of Naval Operations Mike Gilday and Marine Corps Commandant David Berger went before the U.S. House Armed Services Committee to talk budgets and fleet design. Representatives grilled the sea-service chieftains in particular about their “divest-to-invest” approach to procurement, questioning whether shedding aging ships and other hardware to free up funding for future acquisitions is a sound idea when the services confront near-term threats in the Taiwan Strait and elsewhere.

Good question.

As they deliberate, lawmakers might also requisition testimony from none other than King George III, an erstwhile archenemy. Or, more precisely, they might summon up William Pitt the Younger, who served as His Majesty’s prime minister from 1783-1801 and 1804-1806. Prime Minister Pitt put Great Britain’s Royal Navy back on a solid footing after the navy’s suboptimal performance in the War of American Independence—a performance traceable to Parliament’s scrimping on shipbuilding budgets during the years leading up to that war.

False economies in peacetime ended up costing Britain dearly in wartime.

https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2021/06/17/does_biden_have_the_right_naval_strategy_to_take_on_russia_and_china_history_has_an_answer_781815.html

[rangerrebew]

If making Kamala the front person on all tough diplomatic problems is the strategy he uses, he doesn't have the right strategy yet.

[GtHawk]

Of course he does! Joe tested his strategy out numerous times in the bathtub.

[libertybele]

Joe doesn't have the right anything! He just isn't cognitive enough.

I don't trust the news for a second that Biden and Putin actually met and talked for 2 hours.  Joe can't even participate in a question and answer session for 10 minutes without sounding out of it.

Do I feel for him because he has dementia or the lasting ramifications of a stroke?  Yes.  I have no sympathy however for him for what he has done to this country prior to, and his wife Jill ought to be absolutely ashamed.  How does she live with herself??

[GtHawk]

Joe doesn't have the right anything! He just isn't cognitive enough.

I don't trust the news for a second that Biden and Putin actually met and talked for 2 hours.  Joe can't even participate in a question and answer session for 10 minutes without sounding out of it.

Do I feel for him because he has dementia or the lasting ramifications of a stroke?  Yes.  I have no sympathy however for him for what he has done to this country prior to, and his wife Jill ought to be absolutely ashamed.  How does she live with herself??

Jill consoles herself that it will have all been worth it when she becomes the grieving widow. All the media attention, sympathy, speaking engagements and book deals.

[Smokin Joe]

C'mon, man! Of course he does!
Naval Strategy?

First, pick the lint out...