Bill Kambic wrote:
Your tone suggests some hostility toward strategic and tactical decisions
made at the time. Placing the Fleet forward at Pearl (instead of back at
Dago) was controversial when it was made. It was a political decision made
at the highest levels of government.

That's still a good idea today.

5200 nautical miles between San Diego and Soul and almost 6000 between
San Diego and Taipei vs 4200 nautical miles between the East Coast and
Tripoli.

The only place you could base a carrier further from any place you'd
possibly use it is in Texas.

I just hope that as the Navy once again becomes more forward based that
better care is put on force protection this time.

-HJC