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In reply to the discussion: Navy christens next generation of aircraft carrier [View all]Ace Acme
(1,464 posts)72. So a carrier, impractical for real warfare as it is, is an enormous profit opportunity
Last edited Mon Nov 11, 2013, 08:07 PM - Edit history (1)
... for the military industrial complex because its mere existence creates the need for a vast fleet of protective infrastructure.
OK, maybe I'll refine my position. Maybe, properly accessorized with $30 billion worth of support infrastructure, a carrier can be of military utility in an actual war.
Are they of any military utility in national defense? Can they do anything to defend our borders that land-based forces can not do? Or are they only of use in projecting force in places in the world where we are not wanted?
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All that is fine and good - but when will the USS William Clinton be commissioned?
TheDebbieDee
Nov 2013
#2
I hope there will be a garbage scowl that will be approprately christened as George W. Bush
Buddha_of_Wisdom
Nov 2013
#3
No, but you can bet there will be a USS George W. Bush. It will probably sink.
olddad56
Nov 2013
#22
We should scrap every ship in the US Navy. The Coast Guard is enough to defend us.
Bob Jones
Nov 2013
#7
There may be a reason you do not worry about amphibious landings, other wise you would not have
Rebellious Republican
Nov 2013
#8
If recent history is any guide, a carrier would be vulnerable to unarmed airliners
Ace Acme
Nov 2013
#67
So a carrier, impractical for real warfare as it is, is an enormous profit opportunity
Ace Acme
Nov 2013
#72
Unlike the last president a carrier was named for, Ford was a carrier sailor
jmowreader
Nov 2013
#10
Hey, we have only eleven aircraft-carrier strike task forces at present, and that's not even two
indepat
Nov 2013
#15
OMG someone named a ship after Ford. It's going to crash into all the other carriers and
pam4water
Nov 2013
#24