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2006-02-04 Home Front: WoT

Navy Eyes Pacific Expansion To Counter China

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Posted by Frank G 2006-02-04 15:35|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The Atlantic is a mere pond and is thus passe.

Let's GO Navy and Let's GO Asiatic.

and Ima sure Joe would concur.

Posted by RD 2006-02-04 15:54|| 2006-02-04 15:54|| Front Page Top

#2 It would be a shame if not ironic if we got caught again with our 'pants down' at Pearl Harbor!

Posted by smn 2006-02-04 16:40|| 2006-02-04 16:40|| Front Page Top

#3 USN in the Pacific, which is prob why the Spetzies are making trouble in NATO's northern flank, where the USN is NOT. Will say again Dubya & Co. need to be ready to militarily handle Iran, NorKor and TAIWAN simultaneously. Bring back the Draft, or else go back to Cold War manpower levels/spending and 2-1/2+ GLOBAL WARFIGHTING STRATEGY -BETTR SAFE THAN SORRY, BETTER TO HAVE HAVE TOO MUCH THAT GOES UNUSED, THAN TOO LITLE AND SCRAMBLING FOR PARTS AND RESOURCES.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-02-04 21:37|| 2006-02-04 21:37|| Front Page Top

#4 The Lefties will blame Dubya and America anyways for both having the draft as well as not having the draft - NEVER MIND THE DEMS AS VICTORY IS VICTORY.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2006-02-04 21:38|| 2006-02-04 21:38|| Front Page Top

#5 They haven't made the hard choices, said Lawrence Korb, a Reagan administration defense official who is now a senior fellow with the left-leaning Center for American Progress. You can't fund all of these weapons systems. Korb's think-tank has come up with a proposal radically different from the Pentagon's. Its plan would scrap missile defense, the F/A-22 fighter, the DD(X) destroyer, the Virginia-class submarines and the Marine's trouble-plagued V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. Meanwhile, it would add 86,000 Army soldiers.

Figures. Troops are a relatively inexpensive, fungible asset; they can be RIF'd without a screech from the politicos. Weapons on the other hand...

I'm surprised they didn't press for a draft.

Posted by Pappy 2006-02-04 21:52|| 2006-02-04 21:52|| Front Page Top

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