THE OCEANS AREN’T GETTING ANY SMALLER:

I rise to remind everyone that this is not a new development.

Longer than 6-month deployments became a normal occurrence well a decade and a half ago and became normalized in 2013 after years of seeing them.

At the time: "Eight-month deployments are becoming the fleet… https://t.co/N0cANVVyil

— cdrsalamander (@cdrsalamander) October 30, 2026

“We have to either retreat from world commitments and leave civilization to the tender mercies of the PRC and other bad-faith actors, or step up and build and support the fleet that is required.”

The world was a pretty decent place when the Royal Navy and later the USN were big enough to make it that way.