🇺🇸 A $13 billion carrier is only as good as the base that feeds it, and Iran wrecked that base on day one
The Bahrain hub went down in the opening hours, so resupply for the entire Gulf force now runs from Diego Garcia, five days out and five days back.
The Lincoln stayed at sea nine months partly because of that math. Two of its destroyers are still out there with no relief named.
Force projection assumes fixed nodes that hold.
Ports, prepositioned stocks, airfields, cable landings.
Hit those and the expensive platforms don't stop working so much as stop being sustainable.
The exchange rates make it worse.
A $20,000 drone drawing a $4 million interceptor, with production lines that can't restock before 2028.
Nothing about this favors the side that spends more per unit.
It favors whoever can lose things cheaply and keep going.
Source: New York Times, CNN / Writer: Daniel
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The Bahrain hub went down in the opening hours, so resupply for the entire Gulf force now runs from Diego Garcia, five days out and five days back.
The Lincoln stayed at sea nine months partly because of that math. Two of its destroyers are still out there with no relief named.
Force projection assumes fixed nodes that hold.
Ports, prepositioned stocks, airfields, cable landings.
Hit those and the expensive platforms don't stop working so much as stop being sustainable.
The exchange rates make it worse.
A $20,000 drone drawing a $4 million interceptor, with production lines that can't restock before 2028.
Nothing about this favors the side that spends more per unit.
It favors whoever can lose things cheaply and keep going.
Source: New York Times, CNN / Writer: Daniel
$TUT
$BTMD.US
$BULLA
