It's hard to grasp just how vast the expanding bubble of really stupid ideas is and strange that almost nobody can see it. In this comedic story out of Newsweek we are treated to the idea that the Republic of Korea just got the plans to build an aircraft carrier and are going to rush off and build one because every country needs them and besides, it will look good on their resume.
Aircraft carriers are built for one reason only and that is it, they exist to project power. They allow any country in the world to go out and menace every other country in the world. That's all they do. They don't show the flag, they don't pull into port and deter crime, they don't build men, they just float around projecting one nation's will on all the other nations. It's really not all that difficult to grasp.
Now ask yourself why South Korea would need an aircraft carrier? They have one enemy and no world spanning interests anywhere else in the world that require power projection for resolution so why would they spend the 20 trillion dollars to build one? Their one single solitary enemy shares a border with them and is all within easy fighter/bomber range of any airbase in South Korea so there is no shortage of aircraft, bombs, or targets. Why would they need an aircraft carrier?
One could ask of the Australians why they need a fleet of nuclear submarines and get just about as much of a well reasoned answer. Some highly educated twit thinks they will need them for the inevitable war with ______________________.
The problem is of course that they will never now fight that enemy which is slowly and gradually taking over Australia in the quietest way every single day. Australia already lost that war the twit feared so much he contracted with the Bidens to get nuclear submarines built for the RAN. Australia caved into unlimited immigration and within a generation or two there will be almost no native non aboriginal Aussies left. Indonesia has been sponsoring the longest invasion since the fall of Rome.
There is also the problem that they cannot man and operate the submarines they currently have and show little inclination to do anything about it.
Everyone thinks its easy to exist without purpose but it is hard to do that today. The USN maintains fleets of carriers and submarines because we have spent every moment since 1945 meddling with or invading every country on the planet except, maybe, the Vatican. Our subs were out spying on the USSR and then blowing things up very quietly and accomplishing real serious things, not just swanning* about like the Royal Navy for the last 80 years.
*swanning–that thing you do with an entire fleet consisting of scores of warships rather than send one of them down to the single solitary sole flash point remaining of your whole entire former empire in order to deter some feckless MILITARY JUNTA from invading islands they have claimed for a century or more.
Kind of makes you wonder how many of the RN's ships are actually swanning around the Malvinas today....Some people learn from history, some lost the knack and others never had it.
3 comments:
Building an aircraft carrier today? Guess that fighting last decades wars spring true.
Area denial weapons make using an aircraft carrier a fool's game.
Ask the Hothi's if you need clarification and they didn't have state of the art weapons.
This appears to less of a multi billion dollar 100K ton full size aircraft carrier and more of a modest 30K ton sized multi use flat top suitable for helicopters and VTOL F-35's. It would give the Korean military options so they don't have to rely on the US Navy for such things. The Japanese navy is doing the same thing.
Oddly enough, the only coastal and island claims that Japan and Korea have are with each other and not as with the South China Sea, with China.
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