US Navy isn’t ready to fight as it should

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But the lack of readiness is pervasive across the fleet. The Navy’s maintenance backlog grew by 41 percent from 2012-2017, and the condition of available shipyards continued to deteriorate.

Ships can’t fight well if they’re not up to snuff.

For example, shipyard facilities “now include at least four dozen buildings—comprising 1.2 million square feet of space—that are condemned, uninhabitable, or otherwise unusable for ship repairs or any other work.”

Shockingly, the Navy had only 22 dry docks and sub-tenders in 2019, whereas in 1988 it had immediate access to roughly “50 dry docks, marine railways, and lifts.”

They spend billions on new ships that can’t meet their design parameters. Aircraft carriers that can handle landings. And the inability to fully train and maintain crews.

Even with small improvements and increased attention, more must be done, and quickly. The Pentagon and policymakers must make the maintenance of our sea vessels a priority, or they risk jeopardizing the Navy’s ability to protect our interests

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The thing of it is that the Navy will never "fight as it should". There will never be another Navy war on the high seas like we saw 75 years ago. The Navy is well able to handle the brush fire wars that we have seen for the last fifty years if the administration allows them. We keep building fortresses at sea for a war that will never happen. You have to scratch your head that a couple of teenagers in a freaking speed boat were able to blow up the USS Cole but that's a political problem.
 

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