Cooperation between the allied democracies hasn't been more essential in 80 years. However, when I see these large-scale naval exercises, I think we are fighting the last war, not preparing for the one already upon us. Have we learned nothing from Ukraine? Nothing from our intelligence on China's military development? Grand fleet manoeuvers make excellent targets for Chinese ship-buster missiles and the new class of air, surface, and underwater sea drones. The US carrier group in the Red Sea can't defeat the Houthis. How will the Grand Fleet defeat the China/Russia/Iran axis? A carrier group's operating range is about 500 miles. A Chinese carrier-buster missile has a range of 750 miles. Only one has to hit. And they are much cheaper than a carrier, a naval fighter plane, or a defensive missile. The NATO nations are ramping up their defense spending, and justifiably so. However, a massive percentage of that spending will do nothing to make the free world safer. Indeed, it is a distraction from accelerating the development of the systems that will make the free world safer. Time to wake up. Department of War Studies Atlantic Council Council on Foreign Relations Mits Capital Center for a New American Security (CNAS) RAND The Brookings Institution Hudson Institute American Enterprise Institute Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) United States Department of Defense #foreignpolicy #nationalsecurity The White House Institute for the Study of War William Collins J. Scott Christian Matt Abrams #foreignpolicy #nationalsecurity National Security Council, The White House Ashley Roque Lara Seligman Haley Britzky Joe Gould The Merge DefenseScoop Defense Brief Defense News Tony Capaccio Paul McLeary Connor O'Brien Jake Epstein Colin Demarest Valerie Insinna Breaking Defense Defensemirror.com The Defense Post Audrey Decker
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3moH. Perry Boyle, Jr. there actually is value to these large fleet exercises. Yes China only needs one missile or drone, but they will also have a high dud rate and user error rate. We do need to be doing more to incorporate our newer technology and weapons into these exercises. But we also have to balance that with the fact doing so puts them on display for China as well. We need to find a balance that won’t force us to over play our hand before the technology is fully developed, deployed and sustainable. Basically when the current generation goes public, we need to already be working on the next generation. Because once it is out in the public, China will be doing everything it can to collect data and retro engineer in order to defeat and or replicate it.