Odds on Leicester was determined by bettors, which is not reliable, just the publica opinion of what might happen. Big market clubs are always bad buys in these markets and small market clubs are better buys because of the money coming in. You never get as good “pot odds” on the Cubs or Yankees as you get on the…

Bradley has never been and will never be world class. Him and Beckerman were the opposite of a “working” midfield in my opinion.

Except that every poll that focuses on actual issues and concrete proposals shows that the country’s opinion looks like a Bernie stump speech. It is only a highly refined propaganda machine that keeps us divided.

Incorrect.

“The ability of our carrier groups to strike rogue nations and apply pressure from international waters is a fringe benefit”

We may win the battles abroad, but when we let our infrastructure, education, and healthcare suffer, we lose at home.

When’s the last time you or anyone has heard of the U.S. Navy thwarting the exploitation of oceanic resources and wild life?

We have the largest military budget of any nation in the world by hundreds of billions. Either we have the best and strongest military on the planet by several magnitudes (in which case, great! what’s the problem?) or there’s some kind of massive inefficiency that’s allowing other militaries to surpass us on much…

Yeah a draft dodging grifter is going to fix the Navy.OK go with that rubes

What troubles me about this whole situation is that the average American tax payer is oblivious to what is going on with the military’s budget. Our infrastructure is need of an upgrade, our schools our failing, and the nation as whole is facing a lack of direction or cohesiveness. Yet instead of focusing on these…

I would also like to include the number of officers that the Navy rely on today. Why do we have more admirals than we do ships? Why in the world do we have 3,105 captains (O-6)? The Navy is way over “top heavy” with people that have no jobs, but “good ideas” such as the LCS and supply programs, and uniform changes…

I expect *much* better from Foxtrot Alpha. Everybody knows that counting ships is a completely bullshit way of measuring navel strength. And yet you do it over and over and over again.

Gary Wetzel - who are you?

Then perhaps, to put it bluntly, the US needs to be rethinking the cost/benefit analysis on those alliances. We heavily subsidize defense for a good portion of the entire developed world. That subsidizing has allowed nations like Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, the UK, and others to build peaceful and prosperous…

Reminds me... when is the US Navy going to get money to move their drydocks and piers inland? In 2050, all current Navy infrastructure will be underwater, and that shit will cost billions to move. Best to begin working now instead of tomorrow because costs will keep rising.

It always eats at me that the navy is always ready to fight the last war. The USS Gerald Ford is a perfect example of bad planning. Nimitz class was built for 90+ planes deployed. We don’t depl0y them with over 60 now. We haven’t in almost 15 years. Why was the Ford designed for the old standard of 90+? Why do we…

If they Navy wants 350 ships et al, why not have them express that in terms of how much our income taxes will have to increase?

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its…

“When candidate Trump pledged to expand the U.S. Navy to 350 ships it was expected he would at least try to move in that direction. Instead, the budget he put forth does nothing to take the Navy beyond the 308-ship target set by the Obama administration in 2012.”

Imagine that. 

Question 1: How many nuclear submarines does it take to stop Somali pirate skiffs?