America may be none for its overwhelmingly powerful military, bolstered by the largest Navy in the world, but all is not as it seems when it comes to America’s dominance of the seas.
While the United States possesses a huge fleet of naval ships patrolling oceans across the globe, those ships may not be as powerful as many may believe. That’s because the age of many of the ships have them sidelined for lengthy and expensive repairs. Couple that with a federal government that seems uninterested in continuing America’s military dominance, and you’ve got a navy that looks strong, but cannot perform at the levels it was once capable of.
Proof of the government’s negligence comes from how few of the naval ships in need of repairs are receiving the critical maintenance required to keep them in ship shape.
See the shocking numbers on the next page:
Obama cuts Navy funding . . . .
I’ve experienced this first hand. I served in the Navy for over 9 years….
Lack of ships? They have not replaced an aircraft or Ship for over a decade. Everything is decaying. Send home all immigrants Build our Military.
Gordon Billingsley. We need to contact our Congress. I did today and told them I want TERM LIMITS and No more raises for them and The same insurance they gave us.
Obama’s New Naval Fleet!
Very sad! The ability of the U.S. to prevent war is not done by the Army, or Air Force, rather it is done by the Navy and it’s ability to deploy an enormous amount of power projected just off the shores of a hostile nation as a show of force – which usually causes the hostile nation to bend and reach a diplomatic solution. An American nation with a weak Navy and old ships signals to our enemies that we are incapable of forcing them to behave appropriately, and so they will behave like criminals with no fear of any rule of law being enforced upon them. In today’s case, China will continue to do as it wishes in the South China Sea, North Korea will continue to do as it wishes along disputed waters and the Sea of Japan, Russia will continue to buzz our ships with their fighter aircraft, and pirates along Africa’s coast will go unchallenged – as will drug cartels from Mexico operating in the Atlantic and Pacific ocean.
Yes Gordon Glauser
WORST PRESIDENT 5
What did he spend $10 trillion on???
Isn’t that just friggin wonderful!What is wrong with this president??