When Russia’s Vladimir Putin starts whining about the USA dominating the world, you know part of it is because he’s a dictator and the world he has in mind is other dictators like the mad mullahs of Iran–and with a few, lamentable exceptions in past and current policies, we don’t like ’em. But he could also be talking about the 11 large and 12 small carriers of the US Navy, more than at any time since World War II. According to the blogger War is Boring:
"Only two other countries possess large carriers: France and Russia, each with just one. And even these “large” carriers are only 2/3 the size of our Nimitz-class ships. The other half-dozen carrier-equipped navies such as the British Royal Navy and the navies of Spain, Italy and India operate small carriers flying just Harriers. Put another way, our carrier fleet is bigger than the rest of the world’s combined, and flies more jets than most of the world’s air forces."
Worth a read.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 