CHICOMs guide to “Winning Without Fighting”:
Step 1. Get Navy to reduce its own fleet
Step 2. With less ships, less Sailors needed so pay people to get out early
Step 3. Rinse and Repeat
Seconded
“Shrink instead of grow” is “well aligned” to CHICOM’s visionary ambitions
defensenews.com/naval/2021/07/…
“Addition by Subtraction” does not make sense. #SAS2022 description of Navy’s “Divest to Invest” plan.
“The #Navy owes the American public an apology,” Luria says during rebuke of Biden’s defense budget proposal #SAS2022
dailypress.com/military/dp-nw…
"The Biden administration's requested defense budget for FY23 does not reflect the threats facing our nation, the enormously damaging impacts of inflation on the purchasing power of the US military" #Navy #SAS2022
Clutching Defeat from the Jaws of Victory #SAS2022
“China did not take away our maritime overmatch, we gave it away”
#SAS2022
“I’m not a mathematician but it seems like to me that you can’t do addition by subtraction” 🔥
USN to give up ships and go from 297 ships to 280 while CHICOMs will have 460 ships by 2030 #SAS2022
The active duty component of the Pentagon, however, seems to be completely out of touch with the unfolding geopolitical crises - PLURAL - at sea. Thread by @johnkonrad threadreaderapp.com/thread/1511809…
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