Great Conversation. The Navy has no strategy..

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Great Conversation

Perhaps the greatest challenge China presents to the USN is the large number of long range missiles available to target ships and shore installations. Should research into lasers be emphasized as a defense against missiles? Lasers could quickly retarget in a multi-missile attack. The defense today is air defense missiles and a close-in gatling gun. The number of such missiles and rounds onboard ship and ashore is limited and can be overwhelmed in a multi-missile attack. Once the last antiair missile is fired one is out of the fight until replenished which might be to late to prevent an invasion. Also, commercial ships are much larger than those in WWII. Sinking a super tanker today would cause enormous environmental damage. Might there be a way to disable such ships without sinking or boarding them?

The Commandant of the Marine Corps 100% deserves all the flak he has been getting as he has a myopic focus on an island hopping campaign in the Pacific. He is trying to turn the Marines into a single purpose light infantry force, rather than a force that has flexibility and the ability to engage heavy armor equipped foes. Since you rarely get the war you plan for, he is digging the graves of future Marines based upon his own single minded hubris. Anyone who questions his divine wisdom can kiss their military career goodbye. We need the opposite approach where we debate, game, evaluate and critique war plans, so we can base our choices upon data, not wishes or one person's vision.

The Navy has no strategy.