Originally Posted by
etudiant
That is not where the USN dollars are going though,.Although the concept gets lots of ink, the funding is peripheral, because the big prestige projects such as the Ford carriers, the SSBN subs and the cruisers suck up every spare penny.
The Navy is cruising for another Pearl Harbor, with its eyes firmly on the past. Some part of it understands that is a problem, but they are a minority, just as the aviation enthusiasts were in the 1930s, only these are even less influential.
I agree.
Pentagon budgets will be confronted by reality that US has not got the $$$ to continually sustain a spend spend spend mentality.
Sadly US feels like Rome, continual escapades far from home while the homeland is falling apart racked by political infighting with seats of Govt distrusted by Govt and wholly ineffective. A tipping point eventually gets reached when Allies doubt you.