aging tankers to be replaced

"Charles Talleyrand" wrote in message ...
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The United States spends more on defense than the entire continent of
Europe including Russia. We spend more than the entire continent
of Asia including China and India. We spend more on defense
than the top ten nations combined.
Going to your analogy, the Germans had less equipment than their enemies,
yet could win battles by better methods. The US does not face this challenge.

Ten years from now its entirely plausible that some wily potential
opponents in that region may well have the capacity to outmatch us in
terms of Concentration Of Force fi we had to meet them near or on
their home turf.

Of course the US can be outnumbered at a moments notice. The Chinese
could outnumber us in the Taiwan straights by tomorrow as could the
Nigerians in Benin. But whatever they sieze, they could not hold.

Maybe you could describe a reasonable scenerio where we cannot
put more resources on the battlefield than our enemy. Iraq #1 was an
almost worst case example, with a very well armed and experienced
opponent about as far from the US as one can be.

So, if you could offer a reasonable scenerio.


This one gives the gist anyway:
http://www.capitolsource.net/files/p...y_strategy.pdf

"s.p.i." wrote in message om...
"Charles Talleyrand" wrote in message ...
Maybe you could describe a reasonable scenerio where we cannot
put more resources on the battlefield than our enemy. Iraq #1 was an
almost worst case example, with a very well armed and experienced
opponent about as far from the US as one can be.

So, if you could offer a reasonable scenerio.


This one gives the gist anyway:
http://www.capitolsource.net/files/p...y_strategy.pdf

Boy what a boring read.

You're arguing that the Chinese will launch 'thousands' of ballistic
missiles with 'advanced conventional warheads'. I'm not really
worried about scenerios involving weapons that the Chinese don't
have and currently cannot even build, and that no other nation on
the planet has chosen to develop.

Maybe we should end this conversation. It's uninteresting.