I am very curious here. Trump and the National Security Team do not plan raids. This was done by Naval Special Warfare Group with approval from CENTCOM. Anyone in the long chain from the LTjg up to the 4 star could have stopped this raid if they felt it was going sideways before they hit the ground. That the Op went…
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Sunk cost fallacy.
“It’s almost as if you’re saying...”
The tone of this article is offering conclusion(s) rather than asking questions. I find it laughable even more so considering who the author is. It has the same weight as stuff spray painted on a subway wall and its main value is to offer a place for people to bash Mr. Trump.
As for the second part yes. I do high…
“but where’s Trump’s justification for his position?”
Case can be made we as tax payers are entitled to justification.
My main point I guess would be that decisions regarding Nuclear Arsenal will be made by a group of people (including several Generals) that have more knowledge than the author or anyone in the comment…
An article acccusing Trump of knowing nothing about Nuclear weapons, written by someone who clearly just read about them yesterday on Wikipedia.
I’ve clicked on this to inflate the number of views. Please keep these articles coming.
With a little bit of luck it will accomplish something (anything) besides making me laugh at author and like-minded in the comments section.
Accurate.
You mean besides:
Tomahawks are land attack? Tell that to the TASM which was in service when the Iowa was active.
You realize the Iowa also has 32 Tomahawk and 16 Harpoon missiles? All she’d need to do is land one decent hit on Zumwalt and she’d pop up on radar.
Arizona was a pre-WWI battleship, designed and built decades before effective air power was devised.
Supposedly every command and control space (CEC, Radio, etc.) has minimum armor to withstand a 5" shell hit. Even non-vital spaces (for example a berthing space on the main deck) has thicker steel than anything in the active Navy today.
The Iowa was designed to survive and win a sustained engagement taking direct fire from 16" armor piercing shells with >2000lb warheads travelling more than 1500MPH. She doesn’t have much fear for 500 or 1000lb warheads attached to missiles let alone a sea chicken. Also keep in mind the Iowa has 4 CIWS mounts and…
Older design Battleships were sunk by lucky shots, 1 out of hundreds of bombs dropped.
Look at the f35! im with you on this. it looks like we are moving backwards on this shit. spending more money=/=better.
Unless some of those missiles have nuclear warheads I’m pretty sure that the Iowa could take all 80 of those missiles and it would only make it angry.
Yes, the is another US Navy ship procurement screw-up. The LCS and Ford class carrier programs have also had major issues.