Twice the number of hulls would help a lot, but twice the *tonnage* would be amazing. Building a large number of smaller hulls (FFs, DDs, Corvettes, whatever you want to call them) and minesweepers would obviously have made convoy ops in the straight feasible in a way the DDG/CVN navy just can't.

I would argue that you need naval strategists. Saying a larger Navy is confusing Means for Ways.

And you'd have to seize a *lot* of land

Yes it is, a twice-as-large Navy could do what it needs to do in the Strait and project Marines to secure the landward side simultaneously.

Two moronic leaders. Don't forget that wazzock in Tel Aviv.

Having spent a good deal of time puttering around the Persian Gulf on a haze gray ship, albeit in the last century, my mind boggles with the realization that the USN no longer controls that body of water.

I don't think it's wrong, but I also don't think there exists an amount of navy that could have actually solved this problem, either.

I'm just a layman, but it seems to me we'd need to do as land invasion to reopen it once Iran closed the Hormuz, and there's never been enough will to do that.

From a 2024 article.

"The U.S. Navy went from a massive fleet of 1,248 ships in 1946 down to..297 ships, and although this smaller fleet has much greater firepower at its disposal...it no longer has enough ships to deploy and respond to crises all around the world."

thediplomat.com/2024/09/the-decline-of-us-naval-power-and-how-it-can-make-a-comeback/

the USA collectively doesn't know enough history to treat its Navy at their senior service

some Americans know better ofc, but it's not as if the knowledge is anywhere evenly nor widely distributed

Compare the United States Navy, it’s current acquisitions and acquisition rate, to that of the Indian Navy, or especially that of the PLAN.

The vaunted American Navy is not what it once was.

"Colonialism is when boat", in the wild? Incredible.

good. Death to America

You could ask the same about the deal Ukraine made to give up its nuclear weapons after the collapse of the USSR.

I'm curious to see if this doesn't take a big bite out of sanctions regimes as well. Russia already ran the Cuba blockade as well.

China has a production line producing several of the world's most advanced frigates at the same time and will have 6 aircraft carriers by 2030

People aren't being told the truth abouy how much the war of terror against Afghanistan distracted the US from existential threats

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Need frigates and destroyers for a freedom of the seas mission.

Oh noooo the single biggest driver of global instability amd exploitation cannot project power like it once did, whatever shall we do

There's a book for how that goes. By Thomas Hobbes.

Maybe it's a counterfactual where the US has good political leadership?

by guaranteeing escort capability so that we had an actual counter to Iran saying SOH is closed unless you pay the troll toll

Can’t say I agree. America ain’t what it used to be. You don’t own the planet.

lol

This could never be a punishment she's great.