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elephantium · 03-29-11, 08:06 PM

I tend to agree with the people saying that Ark Royal's decommissioning is foolishly premature. I'm generally in favor of the U.K. increasing its military power from the current level (within reason, of course).

My country's military power, OTOH, could use a SERIOUS haircut. It's completely unnecessary to maintain over half the world's naval power and close to half of the world's entire military budget. If I were in charge, I'd cut back to 30% of global military spending and still have plenty of safety margin in military terms.

I'd decommission some of the U.S. carriers, too, which might sound strange at first ... but it's a far cry from reducing the carrier fleet by ~10-20% to eliminating it for 8 years.

03-29-11, 08:06 PM	#5
elephantium Bosun Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 62 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I tend to agree with the people saying that Ark Royal's decommissioning is foolishly premature. I'm generally in favor of the U.K. increasing its military power from the current level (within reason, of course). My country's military power, OTOH, could use a SERIOUS haircut. It's completely unnecessary to maintain over half the world's naval power and close to half of the world's entire military budget. If I were in charge, I'd cut back to 30% of global military spending and still have plenty of safety margin in military terms. I'd decommission some of the U.S. carriers, too, which might sound strange at first ... but it's a far cry from reducing the carrier fleet by ~10-20% to eliminating it for 8 years.