I got lots of Navy friends. Can't say this around them, obviously.
But, when you have the ability to launch a B2 from Whiteman AFB in Missouri, have it fly to Afghanistan (or anywhere else in the world) without landing, deliver a payload, then return home - there simply isn't much need to park a carrier group off their coast. Perhaps it works for intimidation, but I'd think it's far more intimidating for a country to not know if/when a strike is coming, and just have their city explode in the middle of the night.
It's why those old Alfred Hitchcock movies were always scarier than the modern flicks. You never knew what was coming, and often your own imagination scared you more than the movie. Nowadays, they show you everything, and it's often far less scary. Gorier and sicker, but not scarier.
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Re: Newest Navy warship powered by...Linux
by The Comrade » Mon Oct 21, 2013 12:56 pm
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Re: Newest Navy warship powered by...Linux
by The Comrade » Mon Oct 21, 2013 12:58 pm
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Re: Newest Navy warship powered by...Linux
by spacemonkey » Mon Oct 21, 2013 1:11 pm
War is pretty stupid and dangerous as is. Putting it on autopilot will probably be our (the world) undoing. Oh I forgot, war is expensive and wastes resources too. Not to mention lives.
The hardest part of doing nothing is knowing when your done.
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Re: Newest Navy warship powered by...Linux
by eric » Mon Oct 21, 2013 1:13 pm
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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Re: Newest Navy warship powered by...Linux
by The Comrade » Mon Oct 21, 2013 1:41 pm
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Re: Newest Navy warship powered by...Linux
by eric » Mon Oct 21, 2013 3:32 pm
Yup. Marines are basically obsolete. They are a glorified infantry now.
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