How Iran exposed the limits of the US navy | DW News

How is the US with the strongest navy in the world? There's nothing in the world like it. Struggling against a much smaller adversary. The contest of who controls the straight of Homus is exposing the vulnerabilities of shipping lanes and also big navies. warfare anymore. Modern warfare has already changed. For decades, bigger always seemed to be better. But is size the only thing that matters when dealing with modern threats? Why can't the US just dominate the seas? There's nothing like the fighting force that we have. Rome the seas. It's called the United States Navy and there's nothing in the world like it. That's true. The United States does still have the strongest navy in the world based on how much destruction its ships can deliver. Even though it has fewer ships than China, it's the battle tested one. Navy is larger than the US Navy. This is Brian Clark, an expert on the US Navy at the Conservative Hudson Institute and former Pentagon adviser. Um, a lot of its ships are smaller ships that are designed for what they would call near seas defense. It's all about the type of ships the country has. Aircraft carriers are considered the most powerful warships on the seas. The US has 11, more than any other navy in the world, and each one costs billions. Take the USS Gerald R. the biggest ship the country has ever put to sea. The Pentagon describes the nuclearpowered aircraft carrier as the most capable, adaptable, and lethal combat platform in the world. And no country has a global military presence like the US. Around 750 military bases in 80 countries built over decades with US partners and allies. Washington doesn't disclose the location of all of them. These are the naval bases we know of.