Your High Value Unit (HVU) May Not be What You Think it is

there is more than one way to kill a Carrier Strike Group (CSG)

This is a companion to yesterday’s post.

It popped into my head last night while I was reading through comments the superior coverage Sal Mercogliano gave of the USNS ships over the last year.

None of what the US Navy accomplished off Israel and in the Red Sea would have been possible without them.

However…they are unarmed and for a vast majority of the time, unescorted to and from the ports they use to “top off” before returning to the fleet to transfer the supplies that keeps the fleet in the fight.

Especially in the Pacific, the world’s oceans are no longer an 'American lake.' The Pax Americana—if it ever existed—is now an artifact of memory.

I don’t know how many more red lights we need before someone fixes this problem—that our most critical enabler is essentially unable to defend itself, even in a rudimentary way.

Wargame the vulnerability below and its first, second, and third-order effects if multiple ships like Supply were sunk.

There should be no counterargument.