Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships

Re:Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships by closeparen on Monday August 28, 2017 @10:18PM (#15121663)

There sort of are two militaries:

- One we maintain to prove to our potential adversaries that we maintain it, in order to preserve stalemate.

- One we maintain to actually use.

I'm going to venture a guess that a well-functioning defensive military is inherently unstable, as anyone who understands how powerful it is will realize that it never actually has to function.

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Re:Maybe today’s Navy is just not very good at driving ships by someguydave on Friday September 01, 2017 @05:23PM (#15152480)

> well-functioning defensive military is inherently unstable

This is why it makes sense to have a purely defensive military work on a reserve and draft basis. You don't really need the defensive military - until you do - in which case you want to magic a really big and reasonably competent one into existence quickly.

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