Geopolitics
Shipshape for Empire: The Fading Power of America's Amphibious Armada
The U.S. military's versatile amphibious ready groups are chronically under-deployed due to a shortage of ready ships, leaving a critical gap in global crisis response and deterrence, precisely when imperialist ambitions demand constant forward projection. This desperate scramble for naval readiness exposes the unsustainable strain of maintaining a global empire of bases and interventions, a failing system that drains resources while provoking the very conflicts it claims to prevent.
