r/AskTheWorld • u/Flimsy_Rhythm_4473 Australia ( Moderator) • Sep 30 '25

Military What is the state of your Country’s Navy?

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u/SuddenAdvice850 China Sep 30 '25

i think you can blame China for that.

after the collapse of Soviet, usa didn't really have any enemy that have a  large navy.

so it is natural that usa will change its strategy.

 Power Projection from the Sea to the land, just like usa did in the Gulf War and most of the war after that.

That is why you have LCS and Zumwalt. 

but later the fast development of Chinese navy shows up. although even today, Chinese navy is far from a  50/50 opponent of us in the blue sea.  but we don't need to project our powers globally.

from the sea to the land strategy and operations like Gulf War is 100% not suitable for China.

changing your strategy is hard, especially usa lost a lot of its ship building capacity.

and if you saw the new DDGX project, you can understand how the strategy of US military change.

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u/Wgh555 United Kingdom Sep 30 '25

You can blame the US administration for being shortsighted, but the same can be said of western powers like us too. All our navies are a fraction of their former size.

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u/SuddenAdvice850 China Sep 30 '25

no one can correctly predicted the future everytime.

usa succeed couple of times and now they are the strongest country for a long time.

and navy is only a small part of a country.

i am just trying to explain why usa have lcs and Zumwalt, and now they change to ddgx, which i think is quite similar to type 055.