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<blockquote data-quote="Triton" data-source="post: 62926" data-attributes="member: 3324"><blockquote>There's no reason for having a Navy and Marine Corps. General Bradley tells me that amphibious operations are a thing of the past. We'll never have any more amphibious operations. That does away with the Marine Corps. And the Air Force can do anything the Navy can do nowadays, so that does away with the Navy.—Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson, December 1949 [1]</blockquote>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_the_AdmiralsFrom comments like this by Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson, don't you believe that there was more at stake here than just the USS United States? Wasn't the &quot;Revolt of the Admirals&quot; at its heart a debate over the future of conventional weapons and forces at the beginning of the Atomic Age and a challenge to the idea that all future wars would be decided by nuclear weapons? If Johnson and his supporters had been able to continue unchallenged, would the United States have had a military that could only deliver nuclear weapons?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Triton, post: 62926, member: 3324"] [quote]There's no reason for having a Navy and Marine Corps. General Bradley tells me that amphibious operations are a thing of the past. We'll never have any more amphibious operations. That does away with the Marine Corps. And the Air Force can do anything the Navy can do nowadays, so that does away with the Navy. —Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson, December 1949 [1][/quote] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolt_of_the_Admirals From comments like this by Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson, don't you believe that there was more at stake here than just the USS [i]United States[/i]? Wasn't the "Revolt of the Admirals" at its heart a debate over the future of conventional weapons and forces at the beginning of the Atomic Age and a challenge to the idea that all future wars would be decided by nuclear weapons? If Johnson and his supporters had been able to continue unchallenged, would the United States have had a military that could only deliver nuclear weapons? [/QUOTE]

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