Comments on: Piracy In Europe ?

By: vey9

vey9 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:57:21 +0000

From the New Recruits Handbook:

The mission of the United States Navy is to protect and defend the right of the United States and our allies to move freely on the oceans and to protect our country against her enemies.

By: randy_h

randy_h — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:29:41 +0000

That is not “what navies were created for”. Keeping the sea lanes open is not the role of the navy. *Controlling* the seas and projecting force beyond the borders is why we, and every other country throughout history, has built and operated navies.

If all those ships were only purposed with being water cops then there are certainly cheaper ways to accomplish that goal. Many models of rather modest, inexpensive to operate aircraft are up to that task. The point of my navy is to drive around the mobile airport and its supporting flotilla fortress from which those planes might launch, with the capability to park it anywhere they are called to without risk of serious challenge.

By: vey9

vey9 — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:54:21 +0000

This is what Navies were created for. Not to intimidate countries by parking an airport just off their coast line. Or making “sneak attacks” using missiles that travel many miles under the radar thus creating “cruise missile diplomacy.”. They were created “to keep the sea lanes open.”

That is their primary purpose. The fact that the US Navy can't complete one of their primary purposes shows how far we have strayed.