A wargame at the US Naval Postgraduate School (June 2018). Wikipedia
Defense One: Are Naval Forces on the Right Path? Leaders Run Wargame to Check
Analysis of the classified, Pacific-focused “Global 14” will continue for weeks or months, a Navy official said.
Top naval leaders attended a tabletop wargame Wednesday whose Pacific-conflict scenario was meant to help determine whether their decisions about capabilities and platforms have the Navy on the right path.
“This is a gut check, really, I think, for senior leaders on: Are we going in the right direction, not only in terms of how we're going to fight but, as I said earlier, what we're going to fight with,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said to reporters after the wargame concluded.
The classified “Global 14” wargame was held this week at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, and hosted by the Navy’s U.S. Pacific Fleet. More than 475 people were involved from the Navy, Marine Corps, and Army, including senior leaders Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, Marine Commandant Gen. David Berger, and Adm. John Aquilino, the commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.
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WNU Editor: Outside observers say no (see below):
Can the US Navy fight and win a war? (Harlan Ullman, Heritage Foundation)
The Navy's funding levels are too low for confronting China -- Dov S. Zakheim, The Hill
Growing Naval Imbalance Between Expanding Chinese and Aging US Fleets -- The Diplomat
Can the US Navy fight and win a war? -- Harlan Ullman, The Hill
Leaders will give the Navy anything but more ships -- Washiongton Examiner
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Can the US Navy win wars? No. However, they CAN educate sailors and midshipmen concerning white systemic racism. Also, they are ready to defend the rights of transvestite sailors--including making them comfortable to use whichever bathroom they choose. The Navy is making big strides in being woke. In fighting wars, not so much.
I always wondered about Silkworm missiles. From the time they are fired you can calculate how long they take to fly 5 to 10 miles. Not very long. Will a person lose a few seconds of reaction time if a rising missile is lost in the background cutter?
Where air defense does not work for whatever reason gives one pause.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stark_(FFG-31)
"No weapons were fired in defense of Stark. The autonomous Phalanx CIWS remained in standby mode,[citation needed] Mark 36 SRBOC countermeasures were not armed until seconds before the missile hit. The attacking Exocet missiles and Mirage aircraft were in a blindspot of the STIR fire control director ...."
Granted the above is wikipedia and there is suspect.
What is not suspect is the warhead size. I would not be hard to imagine how many frames a missile would take out based I warhead size. Simply watch missile hit a ship on Youtube and you could roughly scale up or scale down the damage based on warhead size.
And these newer Chinese missiles are more dangerous.
Xi is a dick. He respects two things. Your willingness to fight and the size of your package. Do Jake, Ned, Blinken, Austin or Milley look like they have any balls? And the amount of military hardware ...
Who's the crystal ball dealer for all these people? Obviously they feel we will react in a way that's anticipated by the chinese planners.
Like the Japanese navy's plan to take Midway in 1942.
The Barrier and the Javelin, Japanese & Allied Pacific
Strategies, February to June, 1942. H.P. Willmott.
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