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Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Iran War, China, and the Future of Sea Power

naked capitalism · 1h ago · 🇺🇸 United States
Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Iran War, China, and the Future of Sea Power

The Iran war exposed a potential weakness in the architecture of American sea power. Precision strike can threaten the forward bases that sustain expeditionary fleets while distributed weapons and sensors can contest maritime access without command of the sea. If Iran demonstrated the problem, China presents it a fortiori.

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