By Not Funding A Navy You Will End Up Sinking It

The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan travels through the Pacific Ocean with other ships assigned to the Rim of the Pacific 2010 exercise, north of Hawaii, July 24, 2010. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Dylan McCord

How To Sink An Entire Navy -- David Axe, War Is Boring

Just pretty much stop funding it, is how.

On June 6, 1944, more than 900 British warships sailed across the English Channel escorting the troops that would liberate Europe from Nazi Germany.

Today the Royal Navy is capable of routinely deploying no more than six warships on short notice. The British navy, once the world’s mightiest, is now a token force.

Why? Because the country stopped paying for it.

To be fair, all the world’s major navies have been getting smaller, trading large numbers of older ships for fewer new vessels that are generally bigger and more high tech. The U.S. Navy, by far the world’s leading maritime force, has declined from more than 600 ships and support vessels to fewer than 400 today, including just 280 frontline warships.

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My Comment: A warning to the U.S. .... if it could happen to England it could happen to anyone else. But .... I suspect .... no one is listening in Washington.