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Analyst's note:  Absolutely must consider as our national security and personal safety are in peril. This strategic article gets into the growing competition with China and points out some extremely obvious problems. China is increasing their Navy and we are decreasing ours. A troubling trend if you project it out the way this article shows. Here are the results might look like when we no longer control our sea lanes and national trade pipeline.  This video is about the devestation from "Sandy," but it could just as well be about an even wider nation-wide problem from failure to control the seas.

 

 

This article was prepared in response to the recent third Presidential debate which is still creating buzz in the Military and other circles. This is the first article to outright state that China is the rival but everyone in the military has this feeling.  The most troubling to me is his contrast of ship building yards where we are reduced to six and China has 100. They could therefore do a faster surge in naval power.  Semper Fidelis.

 

[....] diplomacy in the South China Sea is doomed to impotence because it consists entirely of declarations without the backing of sufficient naval potential, even now when China's navy is not half of what it will be in a decade

[....] Not until recently would China have been so aggressive in the South China Sea, but it has a plan, which is to grow; we have a plan, which is to shrink; and you get what you pay for.

[....] The trend lines are obvious and alarming, but in addition we face a potentially explosive accelerant of which the president is probably blissfully unaware, as is perhaps even his secretary of the Navy, who—as he dutifully guts his force—travels with an entourage befitting Kublai Khan, or at least Kublai Khan Jr. That is that whereas the American Shipbuilding Association (now dissolved) counted six major yards, China has more than 100. Whenever China becomes confident of the maturation of its naval weapons systems, it can surge production and leave us as far behind as once we left the Axis and Japan. Its navy will be able to dominate the oceans and cruise in strength off our coasts, reversing roles to its pleasure and our peril—unless we attend to the Navy, in quality, numbers, and without delay.

This will demand a president who, like Reagan, will damn the political torpedoes and back a secretary of the Navy who, like John Lehman, will unashamedly and with every power of rhetoric and persistence rebuild the fleets. The military balance, the poise of the international system, and the peace of the world require no less. Nor does America deserve less.

Mr. Helprin, a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, is the author of, among other works, the novels "Winter's Tale" (Harcourt) and "A Soldier of the Great War" (Harcourt). His most recent novel, "In Sunlight and In Shadow," was published earlier this month by Harcourt.

 

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