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2024-02-17 Arabia

After months taking on Houthi missiles, US carrier faces new maritime menace

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Posted by trailing wife 2024-02-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [20 views ] Top
File under: Houthis

#1 Do to them what Rome did to Carthage and the problem goes away. Of course that would actually involve real war something people in the west lost the whole concept of.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-17 06:40|| 2024-02-17 06:40|| Front Page Top

#2 That pace has meant the ships have spent four months at a constant combat pace with no days off with a port call.

War is Hell

Posted by Skidmark 2024-02-17 06:42|| 2024-02-17 06:42|| Front Page Top

#3 After decades of enormous expenditure of lives and treasure, leftists created a T-Shirt with the logo of "SouthEast Asian War Games, Second Place" to remind folks of the disastrous mistakes of the Viet Nam War as we explored the concept of "land war in Asia" to a penultimate conclusion.

For some of us here, the deja'vu, past is prologue, sensation feels familiar, fighting the surrogates of Iran while pretending they aren't, just as we pretended those weren't Soviet ships in Haiphong Harbor.

Aside from further emptying an already exhausted treasury to replenish very expensive ordnance (Making the MIC and their political allies happy) and massively resourcing extended deployment of critical, strategic naval assets, can someone name a definition of success for this before it gets a lot deeper?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-02-17 16:26|| 2024-02-17 16:26|| Front Page Top

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