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Barack and Mitt: The War for the U.S. Navy Has Just Begun

Demosthenes5 Wrote: Oct 24, 2012 12:41 PM

Mutually exclusive expectations by the BHO administration: the US military is expected to "pivot" from the Middle East AOR (death of UBL= death of Al Qaeda- unfortunately reality reasserted itself in Libya) to the Pacific Rim AOR where the "tyranny of geography" rules due the size of the Pacific Ocean & all it's associated geography. This is a USN/USMC intensive operational domain that can't be maintained, e.g., fighting piracy, w/o sufficient presence in terms of x number of ships to support said mission sets in said AOR. Typical ignorant trial lawyer minimizing the complexity of military operations.

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Demosthenes5 Wrote: Oct 24, 2012 12:45 PM

The weak minded, emotionally damaged, parasitic and easily led voters who got BHO elected in the first place continue to do this nation a serious disservice - there truly is an "Amateur" in the WH.

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Barack and Mitt: The War for the U.S. Navy Has Just Begun

Monday night's final 2012 presidential election debate included a brief but fierce naval battle. The candidates exchanged close-combat broadsides over the size of the U.S. Navy, then fired provocative salvos in the direction of two complex subjects, the capabilities of modern weapons and the deleterious effects of funding cuts required by sequestration on the defense budget, especially planned ship-building programs.

Gov. Mitt Romney opened the engagement. "Our Navy is smaller now than at any time since 1917. The Navy said they needed 313 ships to carry out their mission. We're now under 285. We're headed down to the low 200s if...

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