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2020-02-01 Home Front: WoT

America’s Surge Sealift: What Are They Not Telling Us?

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-02-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top

#1 Makes sense for the Mosaic battle strategy.
If we can't get them there, they can't fight.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-02-01 01:13|| 2020-02-01 01:13|| Front Page Top

#2 Been reading reports on the sealift ships having issues for years. We can get light units places, but haven't needed heavy armor since 2003 and the fleet has suffered from non-need with the war on terror.

Posted by DarthVader 2020-02-01 09:16|| 2020-02-01 09:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Rumsfeld famously said that that you go to war with the army you have. The 2020 version of that seems to be that you go to war with the army you have in the places that you have it. It's hard to imagine WWII-style troop convoys crossing the Pacific in the face of the Chinese naval threat.

Posted by Matt 2020-02-01 09:47|| 2020-02-01 09:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Years? Decades, rather. As the US Merchant Marine had atrophied the problem has gotten worse and worse.

Posted by magpie 2020-02-01 10:24|| 2020-02-01 10:24|| Front Page Top

#5 But wait, doesn’t our ally Panama have a huge cargo fleet we can borrow? I’m sure those Filipino and Pakistani crews are ready to help? After all, they are only doing the jobs American workers won’t do since the unions and our government drove our merchant marine into non-existence. Problem solved!
Sarc off.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2020-02-01 12:18|| 2020-02-01 12:18|| Front Page Top

#6 So we are learning about the reliability of transport fleet.

Have we learned anything about the reliability of allies from the Turkish debacle and the 4th Infantry Division?

Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-02-01 22:10|| 2020-02-01 22:10|| Front Page Top

#7 So what happens if Trump does " a stroke of the pen ' and outlaws union membership in federal or federal contractor jobs ?

Posted by Thaith Elmeresing6163 2020-02-01 23:41|| 2020-02-01 23:41|| Front Page Top

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