(08-02-2020, 12:44 PM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(08-02-2020, 12:02 PM)mikesez Wrote: I know all of that. a ship is only available for battle operations maybe a third of the time, at least during a peace time cycle.
Why do you assume we need to have a battle ready ship 24/7, in every potential hot spot?
Would a one or two month delay in response to something going on near Muscat or Singapore really be catastrophic in a naval context?
None of our potential adversaries make this assumption.

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And please pay attention to what I said about ICBM armed submarines.
If the range of the ICBM is 2/3 of the circumference of the Earth, how many submarines do you need deployed to complete the triad and have mutual assured destruction of every point of the globe? (The answer is two)
if those submarines need to be cycled in and out such that you need three submarines for every one that's battle ready at any given time, how many do you need? (The answer is two times three, six.)
And how many of these did we actually build?

Given that an adversary isn’t tracking and targeting precious assets. 

I understand your argument but you’re attempting to simplify it to the extreme by not putting it into context of the world stage.