If, for the past two years, the question that animated the US Navy was how to achieve the objective of a combat fleet of 355 ships by 2030, as demanded by President Trump, recent months have seen a significant evolution in the positions of both the US Navy and Secretary of the Armed Forces, Mark Esper, on this issue. Indeed, the United States seems to have realized the threat that Chinese naval industrial power now represents on the naval hegemony of the American Navy, even though this tool remains at the heart of the country's foreign policy, and its capabilities for military engagement around the planet.
No more 355 ships, it is now imperative to have a much more powerful fleet to contain the evolution of the Chinese navy, who will align in 2030 nearly 425 combat ships equal perimeter of the US Navy. Furthermore, not only has China already numerically caught up with the United States in terms of ships, but its industrial capacities are today far superior to those of American shipyards, and this while the United States Navy has a much larger area of operation, today at least, than that of the Chinese navy. Finally, the American General Staff ceased to consider that the technology, training and experience of military personnel gave them a significant advantage over their Chinese equivalents. From now on, the Chinese Navy is identified as a serious and efficient adversary, which the US Navy should not underestimate.
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