The US Navy has two carriers currently on active duty, one in the Mediterranean, and one in the Red Sea.
US military personnel are facing long tours of duty away from home as the US provokes animosity from Russia, China, Iran, and other countries.
US aircraft carriers have a plethora of support ships attending them and this is another weakness as equipment failures on the support armada can cause a depletion of support of the carriers.
The article extract below mentions that the USN had ~800 vessels in the 1970s compared to <300 presently.
The US military does not appear in a good state of war readiness while the US government is provoking other countries.
The US is facing a shortage of voluntary recruitment for the military, and 90% of recruits are not aiming for a career in the military.
https://www.realcleardefense.com/articles/2023/12/05/the_navy_dead_in_the_water_... Quote:... There are not enough ships to do the mission nor enough manpower to man the ships optimally.
Deployments are too long, and our people and ships are wearing out.
Recruiting is stagnant.
Too few ships, not enough people,
not enough shipbuilding,
or repair capacity have us on the brink of mission failure. To put the size of the Navy in perspective, when this officer went aboard ship in 1970 to conduct anti-submarine patrols looking for Soviet ballistic missile submarines, the Navy had 792 battle force ships in commission. We now have 291. Then we had a cold war against one adversary, the old Soviet Union. Today we have adversaries all over the world and are trying to perform the mission quoted above with a tiny fraction of the ships we had decades ago. As a maritime nation with treaty allies all over the world coupled with our dependence upon the sea for 90% of the commerce that keeps our economy running, it is a travesty that such neglect of the Navy has occurred.
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