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Well, if you want something more specific, it is more against one specific faction within China than China itself. If I remember what I've been told of Chinese politics right, right now we're in a period where the 'militarist' faction is in power. Much of the China leadership beforehand is far...

The main reason for the Obama administration deferring the maintenance is because, well, as you said the War on Terror simply sucked away funds, and let's be honest, he couldn't actually raise taxes to regain that money (or, alternatively, get enough funding to the IRS so it can actually go up...

Given that we've already got the Burkes at their absolute design limit (i.e. can't upgrade anymore because of design limits) and the Ticos are older... ... you can see where this is going. The real problem is Congress not allowing for pay increases...

Personally, not enough, but we know Congress will balk at the price tag anyway. Given the fact that there are a lot of groups that want to take drones out of the picture, I'm afraid that the UCSes will be no more than glorified paperweights if the technological context is in the right...

From what I understand, that isn't really the case. The reality is that 400 ships are woefully bad in terms of ship longevity. This makes things worse. :( We need something on the order of a 400 ship fleet and probably a separate fleet of SSNs and SSBNs too. :(

Especially given what has been coming out of the USN about their ships being run ragged to the point that they're falling apart and a Congress that isn't going to allow any increases in manpower or ship numbers.

Given the age of the ship, it'll depend on how much structural loss has incurred by the fire. If the ship is listing that bad before the fire is put out, you might be seeing a total loss...