BTFO by artillery

Navies are extremely important in order to secure trade routes and for any oversea's intervention with ground and air forces, which is a fair share of military interventions.

t. admiral dolleys buttboy

>secure trade routes
From what threats? It's not the 18th century, pirates don't cause any serious trouble nor are they widespread. Ships traveling near the horn of Africa can have a small escort but as a whole we could seriously downsize our navy.

a thread died for this

long range anti ship missiles
>But my ship has a counter missile!
100 long range anti ship missiles
>But we travel in a convoy!
1000 long range anti ship missiles. Shit's cheap, much cheaper than ships nowadays. Anything that's not a submarine would go the way of the battleship in any actual state to state conflict.

>Some Somali niggers jack your tanker with billions of dollars of cargo on board
>Having a floating airfield that can be anywhere in the world at any time is useless waste of money

words cannot express how stupid you are

The French navy is extremely useful when the French army has to send forces in African shitholes that don't have the infrastructures needed for such deployment.

Truth

Navy allows for massive force projection and unparalleled logistics support. Never mind the fact that to control the seas is to be able to economically throttle a hostile nation.

Navies literally are the big guns. The 16 inch cannons and cruise missile bays which you could never realistically transport by ground. Carriers are literally mobile airports. You can quickly transport shitloads of troops and materiel anywhere in the world and keep your enemy from doing the same.

And latest and future projected advances in point defenses are only going to make missiles and drones less prominent, and keep the blue water navy as important as it has always historically been

Infantry actually fuck up tanks real good. Tanks are helpless against infantry without their own infantry helping them.
Also artillery needs infantry to move the forward observer to the next hill.

>The 16 inch cannons
Navy does not call its guns "cannons."

what's the big cylinder on top?

t. Alfred mahan

Look up the Strait of Malacca

tip of your mom dildo

This book makes a convincingly argument that infantry is not only necessary but essential to have a low k:d in modern offensive operations. You don't just want infantry alone with without them the other branches have no staying power

This but unironically
War that is nothing but counterbattery fire would be amazing

I don't recall the name of the weapon, but it seems to be an automated anti-missile system. The tube contains its radar equipment and presumably its aiming system and such.

Pretty much a very expensive very sensitive computer system

A plane, ship or tank cannot control a territory.
You need boots on the ground to actually own the place.

Infantry are the backbone and most essential part of any military. OP is an idiot that doesn't know how warfare works.

radar dome

All you need is a hundred of intercontinental nuclear missiles and a little bit of infantry for border guarding, policing and suppressing separatism.

>>BTFO by airforce
>>BTFO by rough terrain
>>BTFO by water
Wrong my man, however the first two sure.

If there's anything the Syrian war, Ukrainian war, 1995 Balkan war and Georgian skirmish shows, it's that propaganda is a powerful tool.

Propaganda shapes the minds of people. It will allow you to do shit that would be unacceptable to the world otherwise. NATO/The West has effectively used propaganda in the mainstream media to justify horrible and disgusting shit and portray genuinely good leaders as bad guys.

1. Logistics (you actually need to be able to move your shit around)
2. Army
3. Propaganda
4. Air Force
5. Navy (if applicable, doesn't apply to landlocked nations)

R2-D2

>propaganda more important than air force
Nigga are you retarded

The RuAF has been indispensable in Syria, they don't need to win the propaganda war if they have aircraft bombing the fuck out of mudslime terrorists

Imagine being this stupid

He has a point though. Navies are largely optional, most countries in the world have little to no navies.

Navies were really crucial in the old days because it's the only way you could transport troops across seas or provide supplies in long campaigns, but now there's cargo planes.

Strong navies are only essential if you're a superpower that wants force projection and the ability to strike anywhere in the world, such as the U.S. or Russia. The former with aircraft carriers and the latter with nuclear submarines. China could benefit a lot from a strong navy as well.

>tl;dr navies don't matter if you're a 3rd world country

How do you get an army from Los Angeles to Beijing? Are you gonna fly them there? Or are you going to hope that the Chinese politely let your defenseless rowboats cross the Pacific?

>Europe vs Russia
Personally i can't wait for a China vs Asia war.

I wonder why so many things exist for the sole purpose of counteracting infantry? Maybe because to make literally anything happen in a war you need infantry??

>most countries in the world have little to no navies.
That’s because everybody knows better than to mess with the big dog on the high seas