- US Navy top brass recently realized that the US Navy is not ready for its next major war, but have started to train to take on big naval powers like Russia and China.
- The US Navy has mainly focused on fighting insurgencies and small forces that aren't well equipped, but Russia and China have become aggressive and have weapons that can beat back US aircraft carriers.
- As a response, the US trained an aircraft carrier strike group on live-fire exercises and anti-submarine warfare to keep it in shape to take on major foes.
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The US Navy just trained an aircraft carrier for a big fight with Russia or China
The USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier strike group carried out more missile tests and anti-submarine exercises than ever before.
Academics and former US Navy top brass recently came to a dark realization — the US Navy is not ready for its next major war.
From the proliferation of "carrier killer" ballistic missiles, to supersonic, long-range anti-ship missiles aboard Russian and Chinese ships, the US Navy finds itself outgunned after decades of focusing on fighting non-peer foes and tackling insurgencies, rather than well-equipped forces.
But when the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier left San Diego in October, it took on a new kind of training mission geared towards countering the threat of big navies like Russia's and China's, the US Naval Institute reports.
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What exactly makes fighting a near-peer different than simply launching airstrikes against undefended ground targets in Iraq and Syria? Missile defense, for one.
US Navy Capt. Joe Cahill
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