32:53 -- The Chinese economy is dependent on foreign oil, so they want to protect the sea lanes to the Middle East. They are searching the world for sources of oil, and are pushing into the southern China Sea, where Vietnam has already found oil in undersea deposits.
Exactly, Chinese economy is dependent on their oil tanker sail thru the narrow Malacca strait where US has many naval bases there, and the US destroyers could blockade the Chinese tankers sail thru like they blockade the Japanese tankers sail thru the Malacca strait in WW2. This forced the Japanese to bomb Pearl Harbor.
ROFLOL, Right... you keep thinking that. War is an integral part of human nature, and therefore it will never be "obsolete" as long as there are humans to conduct it.
The soviets were land locked ? Dont get me wrong I dont mourn their passing but they had over a 1000 ship navy and one look at the map would have sown that while we had a batter navy there was no way they were land locked
Playing Devil's Advocate, where did the Soviet Union transport and sustain, by sea, armies that were operating abroad? The U.S. could send and support armies in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, ...
32:53 -- The Chinese economy is dependent on foreign oil, so they want to protect the sea lanes to the Middle East. They are searching the world for sources of oil, and are pushing into the southern China Sea, where Vietnam has already found oil in undersea deposits.
Exactly, Chinese economy is dependent on their oil tanker sail thru the narrow Malacca strait where US has many naval bases there, and the US destroyers could blockade the Chinese tankers sail thru like they blockade the Japanese tankers sail thru the Malacca strait in WW2. This forced the Japanese to bomb Pearl Harbor.
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With the advent of ASBMs, Mahan will soon be swept into the dustbin of history. I am for anything that makes war obsolete.
ROFLOL, Right... you keep thinking that. War is an integral part of human nature, and therefore it will never be "obsolete" as long as there are humans to conduct it.
hitler's tanks made french strategy obsolete
"Arctic melting is reversing"? Yikes. This view honestly indicts his perspective in general.
The soviets were land locked ? Dont get me wrong I dont mourn their passing but they had over a 1000 ship navy and one look at the map would have sown that while we had a batter navy there was no way they were land locked
Playing Devil's Advocate, where did the Soviet Union transport and sustain, by sea, armies that were operating abroad?
The U.S. could send and support armies in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, ...
Ice is land and winter is a mother in mother Russia.
Geography limits their access to the World Ocean because of chokepoints , in some cases layers of them.
This topic is pretty much dead with regard to the invention of Hypersonic missile technology.
Jezus, boring men
Your brain is just tiny. It's okay, don't feel too bad.