Can Maritime Power Recapture San Francisco Bay?
...can we get past the brown fields, radiation, and Moonbatistans?
CDR Salamander
Dec 03, 2025
First of all, as we do, let’s go to the chart room to look at one of the most geographically perfect places on this planet to have shipyards and naval bases: San Francisco Bay.
As our nation faces again a challenge in the Pacific that necessitates an increased basing requirement on our West Coast, it is only natural we would look first at where nature provided us such a blessing.
From top to bottom, San Francisco Bay used to be covered thickly with naval bases, shipyards and everything else you would expect from a world dominating naval power. However due to a political climate hostile to both the military and industry, grasping developers, and the domination of green-eyeshade accountants over strategists and national-security-minded people, as we see a challenge on the other side of the Pacific not seen since Imperial Japan, the bay’s once potent military ecosystem is almost completely abandoned and derelict like some forgotten remains of a once great empire—which they might be. Either that, or like Hunters Point, a little aglow. In essence, not available for tasking.
It is easy to point out all the problems. Goodness knows, from this seat is makes for easy content, but it is much more difficult to come up with solutions.
Yes, to all the problems, but the requirement remains. If you can’t refurbish, claw back, restart, reclaim, or otherwise take back what the Jesus Jones Era took away—what do you do?
Is all lost?
https://cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/can-maritime-power-recapture-san
