re: #76 Dark_Falcon

China is advancing quickly. And remember that their CV is nuclear power just as our are, and they’re planning to build more. The Chinese Navy (it is no longer called the People’s Liberation Army-Navy) is going to be a regional powerhouse, able to do us serious damage in its own area at least. We must be strong enough to meet it.

One thing I disagree with PLL on is that you don’t want to neglect the Army when in comes to China. We don’t want to invade China, of course, but we want to be able to move Army formations swiftly to Asia to do things like protect and defend Taiwan and South Korea. Ground troops aren’t the main focus of PACCOM, but they are still important.

We have 12 carrier battle fleets.