Taiwan may yet again feature in american foreign policy- with japan more and more unhappy with US bases and none in the philipines, could Taiwan offer the US basing rights?

The USMC divisions would have been handy for reinforcement of norway, iceland and denmark or northern germany/northwest poland.long range strategic bombing hitting rear guard areas(with large losses of course)

And it has been obvious that there is a alot of hardware that NATO has that is superior to russian equipment(and some the other way round) the personnel factor also plays a role. well motivated ground troops and pilots, defending there homes and countries over terrain they have trained for generations over, in units with a lot more long-term members, versus a large consript army invading, would eventually lead to a NATO victory or a stalemate.

“Russians would have been on the Rhine before CONUS could even start to load the sealifter.”

please. do you really think that? Gulf War 1 showed the complete dominance of allied air power. applied to a few key choke points, the russian army would have been scrap. The US carriers and Marine amphibous forces were the big stick- the ability to deploy forces wherever needed was never matched, and that was what won the cold war

why is it that defence spending is not being further increased? the caribous need replacement, we need more than 5 KC-30A, more C-17s and 25 P-8s, another AWD and another 30 MRH-90s, and 8 more CH-47s. this in creased spending will create more jobs all round. staffing should be no problem in a recession and should produce the first steps to recovery.-If on unemployment for six months, looking at losing your house, doesn’t a paid job sound good?

Flat-spinning the F-14A surely was not just an invention (while a crack pilot like Maverick should be better in preventing it, when in a flat-spin the only possibly exit in an F-14 is vertical > eject).
Hitting the canopy after ejection I think was fraud.

Isn’t that around the time the det-cord was installed in aircraft canopys? I believe it was based on fact

I can honestly see a need for another 4-8 C-17’s, with options on leaseing them out to generate some income to pay for them. its rough&short field landing abilities as a valuable capability to have, and the idea of leasing them to other countries as being possible.( I see 8 being the minimum for combat operations, but in peace time being under-used) I just thought there might have been a option for more KC-30’s. possibly the RAAF should have bid for the airtanker cosortium for the RAF!:D

And i know you might say its paranoid, but we train for an invasion. I’d put my money on conflict in some form within the next 7 years. over West Papua or internal strife in Indonesia. I hope not, but i expect the abrams to see some hot action.