George Rebane
Looking at Stratfor’s weekly update of our force projection resources – overwhelmingly the carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups (each with a reinforced marine battalion) – I noticed that we now have only eleven carrier strike groups operational (click to enlarge). Until last year we had twelve. Of these eleven we notice that two are currently “nondeployable”. Overall, it looks like the world is pretty much at peace with the North Korean thugocracy having again changed its mind to not “respond physically” to the recent US-South Korea naval exercises. Also we are not bringing in any additional forces into the Arabian Sea to support an imminent strike against Iran.
Time to refocus our attention again on gay marriage (Prop 8 overturned), radical rightwing tea baggers, and attracting manufacturers to Nevada County.
[5aug2010 update] Today the Pentagon announced that China has developed and is prepared to test a ‘carrier buster’ weapon system that fires a Mach 12 terminally guided missile that can take out one of our super carriers, the ship which forms the nucleus of each of the above described carrier task groups. China knows that we have no designs on its landmass, but they do have designs on becoming the hegemon of east Asia. What stands in their way is America’s ability to deploy the above described resources to block them, therefore the new missile.
It appears that they are aware of the new Alinsky acolytes in the White House, but just in case we will not unilaterally retire our task groups in a timely manner, China wants to give our progressives a little more ammo to speed up the process with the argument, ‘why keep them operational since China will be able to poleax them at will?’ But anyone who has worked on such complex weapon systems will tell you that there are some serious counter-measures that such a ‘carrier buster’ will have to overcome. In the meanwhile, the Chinese continue work on their own carrier task groups.
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