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Interesting statistic: the amount spent on sea lane protection as a % of Gross National Income (GNI). [I’m not sure if this is a specific category of naval spending and if it includes coast guard spending, but, either way, the difference is obvious.] https://lnkd.in/echPWaES

Justin do you mean to tell us that if there is the potential for pending needs to protect our country and our allies that you are doing nothing? How about cutting 1/2 your staff and getting citizens to actually build our own planes, boats, weaponry and so forth. Nine years of doing nothing does not prepare us for what we are seeing around the world. Simply get our military up to speed as soon as possible. https://lnkd.in/etYsJzC3

Arguments against the modern efficacy of the aircraft carrier are—with notable exceptions—incomplete. They tend to focus on the susceptibility of the ships, their price tag, and their limited number. With such resolved constraints, the same could be said of any ship or submarine, or the navy writ large. We accept the depleted size of the fleet, the archaic systems we are forced to evolve and modernize for decades on end as something that is a function of Providence instead of willful, national level negligence. How many carriers should we have? For the missions we give the navy and the combat dominance we demand, we should have at least 30. We should have 1200 ships in the Navy. We should have multiple active combatant and amphibious shipbuilding programs—at all stages of development—all the time. If we really think that war with our peers is around the corner, we should be stoking the hell out of Freedom’s Forge; instead, it’s business as usual.

projecting US power abroad to #keepamericastrong

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As the window for people to claim they were harmed by contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune closes on Aug. 10, the unique, massive injury case against the U.S. government remains almost wholly unresolved, with the path forward still unclear. More than 385,000 administrative claims have been filed with the U.S. Navy by people claiming they were harmed by the water at the Jacksonville, North Carolina, military facility, which the government has admitted was tainted with toxic chemicals for more than 30 years beginning in the 1950s. The deadline stops people from bringing more claims. While that number of claims may contain duplicate filings, the Camp Lejeune situation is still likely to be one of the largest personal injury cases of all time, coming close to the number of claims over 3M’s military ear plugs, which has included more than 390,000 cases. Subscribe to The Daily Docket: https://reut.rs/4dsTnQ

On Navy Day, let's honor the brave hearts who stand tall on the waves, protecting our nation with valor. ⚓️🌊 . .#Amarantos #amarantosrealtechllp #navimumbaiproperty #realestateinvesting #navimumbaihub #MumbaiNewsUpdate #realestatedevelopment #navimumbaiproperty #indiannavy #IndianNavyDay #SaluteToHeroes

Today is Merchant Navy Day , the graphic below gives a contemporary view of our Maritime Nation

This article is a rebuttal of an earlier piece that sought to debunk the US Navy’s case for a larger fleet. I recommend NZ readers note that as the size of the navies of the large break democracies has shrunk, lawlessness and adventurism by authoritarian states has increased. Naval fleet renewal is but one of the many challenges facing our country. Our naval capability ambitions must be realistic, but not just in relation to cost. Our country must live in the world as it is, not as some might wish it to be. We need combat capability to protect the seaborne commerce on which we depend for our existence, to deter authoritarian adventurism, and to project and support our land and special forces. We need enough ships to be able to be where we need to be with the capability to do what we need to do. Short of an economic miracle, the only affordable way to do this is with a fleet based on modularity.

NEW BLOG POST—The Navy and Coast Guard need new ships to face growing maritime threats and carry out critical missions. But shipbuilding efforts have persistently fallen behind schedule and gone billions of dollars over budget. Today’s WatchBlog post looks at how the Navy and Coast Guard can improve these efforts: https://lnkd.in/e26_EMc5