The Real Reason Why US Navy Has 11 Aircraft Carriers | Irish Girl Reacts

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why the United States has 11 11. The

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why the United States Navy has 11

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11 seems like a fun number like 10 is a nice round number 12 is a dozen why 11. I don't know, we'll find out today together. Today's video is brought to you by viewers like you on patreon.com, Diane Jennings, and channel membership if you so choose. to see more of me and chucifer you can check out there we just went to a puppy's birthday party it was a lot of fun he's a little tired he's had a great week he was kayaking on patreon and this video appears on a The channel is call not as you think.

I'll leave the link to that channel and this video in the description box below, but how did you come up with this number and why is there so much emphasis on

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and not other types of ships? of aircraft carriers the size of the US Navy and the size of the US Army as a whole follow a simple formula that is based on two major wars, but it's not what you think, that Hitler is the more powerful is not the same as being powerful. It is often heard that the United States has the largest and most powerful

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in the world, but being number one is not necessarily enough, just as any MMA champion would feel overwhelmed if facing multiple opponents at once, the most powerful neither can it be. be able to defeat the combined forces of multiple nations, so the question is how much power is enough.

United States military doctrine is based on power projection. Power projection, simply put, is the ability of a country to deploy and sustain forces outside its territory to accommodate. There are currently around 750 American foreign military bases spread across 80 nations around the world, but the United States' primary means of power projection, especially where permanent bases are limited, is the Navy and this is precisely why there is so much emphasis on aircraft carriers. like so fucking big to emphasize because I mean most of us have only seen aircraft carriers in movies and tv shows or on the news, just think about how big a plane is and then think about how big those ships are, as if he were a little one. island not even a small island that is no, it would still be a small island it is an island where the closest aircraft carrier is they say that is the first question that the presidents of the United States ask in times of crisis but in reality it is the Airing assigned to the aircraft Carrier in which presidents are interested.

The aircraft carrier is just a floating air base. The primary function of any aircraft carrier is to allow the operation of the Air Wing it carries, kind of like bread is just a vehicle to deliver butter, yes, and true power projection. What aircraft carriers are known for is actually made possible by the aircraft in the Carrier Air Wing, which can project tactical airpower over long distances, including airborne early warning air interdiction and air-to-surface warfare, in fact the The same law that currently requires the US Navy to have a minimum of 11 aircraft carriers also requires a minimum of nine Carrier Air Wings, but how did the US government come up with the number 11?

The US Navy's 11 super aircraft carriers are more than all other nations' aircraft carriers combined, and that's just in displacement amount on one side. All US aircraft carriers are nuclear-powered, giving them unlimited range, but not all 11 supercarriers can be deployed simultaneously at any given time. About a third are in maintenance yards dealing with upgrades and overhauls, a third are in training and preparation and a third are in operation. deployment, although if necessary the deployment of more aircraft carriers could be accelerated, the total number of deployable super carriers is far from the nominal 11. In practice, two to three super carriers are deployed at any given time and that is enough to fight two wars in two.

Separate regions of the world at once and decisively win both. Well, then I want to say that many of us agree hypothetically speaking, but I just want to say that, in fact, I don't know. I mean, there are variables. There are always many possibilities. The United States would win, but you know, my fellow Americans, President Lyndon B Johnson, the US military was sized to be able to fight two wars at the same time, at one point even half a war was added to be fought in the third world when Nixon took office in 1969, the formula was changed to accommodate fighting one and a half wars simultaneously, each president after that modified this strategy somewhat, but the basic measure still seems to be defined as the ability to fight in two geographically separate regions of the world almost simultaneously during this time. known as two major regional contingency strategy for two major theaters war strategy the ability to deter and defeat large-scale cross-border regression in two distant theaters in overlapping time frames is key to the United States remaining a global power and maintaining its global interests the most recent example of this strategy in action is the two major overlapping wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: the Iraq War began in 2003 to overthrow Saddam Hussein and the official withdrawal of US troops was completed in 2011.

Although the mismanagement of the power vacuum that followed Saddam's demise brought Isis to prominence in 2014, followed by the reengagement of US troops in parallel. The war in Afghanistan began in 2001 and lasted 20 years. In February 2020, the United States and the Taliban signed an agreement in Qatar in which the Taliban agreed to take on specific tasks. action to prevent other groups, including Al-Qaeda, from using Afghan soil to threaten the US and its allies in exchange for the complete withdrawal of all international forces from Afghanistan by August 31, 2021, while the world The whole noted that American and allied forces hastily departing Kabul returned control of the country to the Taliban, but this idea of ​​fighting two wars at once dates back to the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The end of the 19th century was a time of territorial expansion for the United States. Only in 1898, the United States Annex. Hawaii acquired Guam and Puerto Rico and bought the Philippines from Spain for $20 million, with some of those islands being in the Pacific and the rest in the Atlantic Navy. Presence in both oceans was required. The completion of the Panama Canal in 1914 allowed ships to cross from one side to the other, which meant that the US Navy could be present in both oceans without having twice as many ships, but by the 1930s with the rise of new regional powers in the west and the decline of the Royal Navy to protect the United States.

Against threats from the East it became necessary for defense planners to consider the possibility of facing two threats simultaneously from Germany in the East and from Japan in the West. The result was the Vincent Walsh Act of 1940, also known as the Two Ocean Navy Act, which funded a 70 increase in the size of the US Navy Fleet. This was the largest naval acquisition in U.S. history authorizing $8.5 billion at a time for a naval expansion program that emphasizes aircraft and aircraft carriers. I know it's like I could have a nice house. you know, fix my parents, yeah, you just wouldn't even notice it was missing and no one would die, well they might die, who's to say this resulted in the construction of 18 aircraft carriers and an expansion of air facilities and naval ships around the world?

Pacific the champagne on the side of a ship I'm always like the guys who painted it must be like please don't damage our paint I guess they're painted anyway now it's one thing to come up with a concept or strategy like one that allows two wars to be fought and won important simultaneously, but another thing is to calculate how many Army divisions, how many Air Force combat wings and how many Navy aircraft carrier strike groups are needed to support such a strategy and within each one the Navy says how many and what exactly types of boats are needed.

The US Navy's goal is to reach 355 ships by 2034. They currently have 298 and the rate they are retiring two-year-old ships is debatable. They will reach that goal, remember that aircraft carriers are vulnerable until they are alone, that is why they never sail alone. A variety of ships are needed to support aircraft carriers when they are deployed, hence Navy ships such as cruisers, destroyers, and sometimes submarines and supply ships. accompany aircraft carriers in a formation known as a carrier strike group, but conservative public policy organizations, particularly studies by the Heritage Foundation, call for a much larger military, for example, not a 355-ship Navy, but a Navy of 400 ships and not 11 aircraft carriers, but 13, I mean. 12 plus one represents an aircraft carrier that is almost always undergoing an extensive mid-life overhaul.

The rationale for wanting the other 12 aircraft carriers is to maintain one aircraft carrier in each of the three main regions of the world Atlantic Pacific and Mediterranean Middle East and then have three additional aircraft carriers for each deployed aircraft carrier this is to ensure that the ships, crew and the aircraft on board can remain healthy and effective fewer ships could mean longer deployment times, which may not be operationally realistic USS Nimitz's 340-day deployment that ended in March 2021 was the longest deployment of any aircraft carrier since the Vietnam War, plus the obvious members would be away from their families and they call it all crew unemployment even though proponents of the two major wars strategy insist that no one has been able to find a better, stronger solution. to size the US military.

There are enormous costs associated with maintaining and growing an even larger military force, something that has proven difficult as the US military budget as a percentage of GDP has been declining. In recent decades, in addition, other forms of threats such as cyber warfare could pose a major obstacle to the situation. That is, cyberattacks that can cause widespread disruptions to communications systems in the United States or, worse yet, military command communications and control systems. devastating consequences for US national security, that's what happens, guys, that's what happens, cyber warfare is the future, that's what's going to happen. Imagine if the entire Internet connection was disconnected just for you personally at home.

Imagine all the things. you couldn't do without your Internet communications and then you go even further and access your bank accounts government secrets oh, they have a lot of secrets, that's what cyber warfare will bring us. Terrified by it Every law of 1940 was written at a time when power projection required the physical presence of aircraft carriers and aviators, which is why we love Top Gun, but there would come a day when Tom Cruise starred in Top hack, well, he did Minority Report and that was nice. terrifying in itself and definitely plausible, guys, did you hear that Black Mirror is coming back?

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