Open Thread

Thought of the Day.

He keeps saying, "The American Moment is Over."

As we transition from a unipolar world where we are the worlds only superpower to a multi-polar world, or non-polar world of many rising regional powers, should the Navy's operational and deployment tempo adjust?

During other periods of muti-polarity, major US Navy assets were reserved and rarely moved into areas until a crisis was forming, but not as part of a standard patrol. Standard patrols of major assets were conducted primarily with friends, away from potential competitors. This increased the value of the Navy as a diplomatic tool, which today would mean if we moved a carrier into a region, it was a big damn deal.

Today, it is routine and no big deal. So this raises the question whether the Navy should adjust operational and deployment tempo? How do we return the Navy into a more meaningful tool of maritime diplomacy now that our rotations have made naval presence routine? Does it matter?