720,000 or 4,500,000 are the X factors in American military logistics. How are these numbers derived at?
The mightiest American war machine is the Carrier Strike Group. According to Wikipedia, A U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Group (CSG) is an operational formation of roughly 7,500 personnel. It typically includes one nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, a carrier air wing of 65 to 70 aircraft, one guided-missile cruiser, a destroyer squadron of two to four guided-missile destroyers, and one or two attack submarines. If you add in the supply and logistic ships and crew, the total personnel could be rounded up to 8,000 men. Multiply 8,000 men with 90 days, or 3 months, a normal tour of duty, 720,000.
Why is this the X factor in American military logistic? When the Americans deploy a carrier strike group, whether for exercise or war, or just a show of force, all the supplies needed to keep 8,000 fed and be comfortable will have to be multiplied by this number. Assuming that the supplies for the whole 8,000 will to last 3 months before replenishment, everything will have to be multiplied by 720,000.
Just to quote a few essential items to illustrate the importance of this X factor.
If each seaman consumes 6 eggs per day, a 3 month supply will be 6 x 720,000 = 4,320,000 eggs
If each seaman consumes 6 tomatoes per day, it will be 6 x 720,000 = 4,320,000 tomatoes
If each seaman consumes 6 satchels of tea/coffee/sugar, it will be 4,320,000 satchels of each.
The X factor can be applied to all consumables, fruits eg orange, apple, banana, vegetables. toilet rolls, flour for bread, toiletries, bacon, steak, chicken, sausages, potatoes, hamburgers etc etc. If a seaman eats half a chicken or a fish a day, they will need to order for 360,000 chicken or 720,000 fish. Similar numbers apply to bacon, steak, sausages, hamburgers etc etc. And if each seaman needs a pail of water for bathing, not counting the water for drinking. they will need 720,000 pails of water.
The logistic problems the American Navy is facing for deploying two carrier strike groups in the Middle East are humongous. The X factor will be 2 x 720,00. Where are they going to find the suppliers to provide for such volumes of food and essential items in short notice? And this does not include the needs of another 50,000 American soldiers supposedly deployed in the region. For the 50,000 soldiers the X factor will be 4,500,000 in addition to the 2 x 720,000. If you combine the two forces, ie to support and supply 68,000 men, the X factor is 6,120,000!
The Operation to kill Iranians is in its six months and the logistic nightmare must be keeping the Americans very busy with sleepless nights. Now you can understand why the seamen are rioting for lack of food and daily essentials in their warships. Now you can understand why drunkard Hegseth had to hide the fact that the troops and sailors were not supplied with their daily essentials and food. It is a horrendous task to support 68,000 fighting men for 6 months!
The Americans are not just bleeding in weaponry but also in food and daily essentials just by being there!
1 comment:
Carrier strike groups are already an obsolete hype-up remains of the WW2, dismantled by the Iranians in this current war in the Persian Gulf. Those carrier strike group need to be close to enemy shores to project power by launching the attack planes to take out enemy logistics. Now, hypersonic missiles take care of the threat by pushing them far out to sea. Those attack aircrafts need enough fuel to fly in and out and the distance makes such air attacks impossible. So, what kind of projection of power are we talking about?
Even if aircraft carriers are parked far out at sea, they are still targets for missiles from shore and with Russian intelligence and Chinese weapons, their location is an open secret and taking them out is no longer impossible when the shit hits the fan. Iran has proven it has missiles with a range of 2,500 to 3,000 mile that can reach anywhere in the Arabian Sea and threatening Diego Garcia.
They carrier strike group hype is still a threat, but it is growing out of fashion. The Russians, Chinese and North Koreans are not just sitting idly by. They are watching, learning and calculating. There is no more necessity to have too many aircraft carriers when a few cheap missiles can turn the tables. China is reported to be making more submarines instead that might be a better alternative.
Oh, lest I forget about those reports that China is even arming container vessels with missiles hidden in containers and fishing boats with missiles that can be turned into warships when needed. Believe it or not is irrelevant. The proof of the pudding is always in the eating when the time comes.
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