” the only way of guaranteeing we decisively meet our national objectives is with U.S. ships operated by U.S. mariners.”
TWENTY-FIVE years ago today the United States completed the largest deployment of combat power since World War II. That effort represented the ultimate show of national resolve in the face of aggression by projecting a decisive combat force, around the globe, to crush the world’s fourth largest army in just 100 hours.
The sheer size and complexity of that deployment was staggering. The material moved was four times more than the D-Day invasion and six and a half times more than the peak of Vietnam. It was also the farthest the United States had ever deployed forces. READ MORE (
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