As Will notes, our Navy has become weak in the skills necessary to plan and defend against a delivery platform that can launch a supersonic cruise missile from 200+ miles at your ships. It takes practice, practice, and practice to get it right. We haven’t been, because all we’ve been doing for over a decade is launching airstrikes and chasing pirates with RPG-7s.

How about the USA gives up on being a world empire. It ever to occur to anyone the Chinese maybe doing this because a US fleet passes back and forth across her shores every now and then and American politicians every now and then say we should be at war with China in some capacity?