if and when the Taliban navy gets up and running again, they will undoubtable use urban warfare tactics on the open seas and the U.S. aint ready for that.
Admiral Akmed and company will use unconventional maritime tactics the likes of which the U.S. has not seen since the Kamikaze.
A. "Unconventional maritime tactics"...you know the US Navy has experience in dealing with that shyt, right?
Thirty-three years ago, Iran was impeding maritime traffic in the Persian Gulf, and one of their mines nearly sunk an American frigate. In response, the USN picked a fight with the Iranian Navy, who dispatched a couple of frigates and a bunch of speedboats. The USN
fukked them up, sinking
half the entire Iranian Navy in a couple of hours. The only reason that they didn't sink the entire thing was that Reagan himself called off the dogs.
The exception, is of course, the USS Cole bombing, but even there they didn't sink the ship, rules of engagement are much less stringent than they were back then, and of course that was in port rather than in open sea.
B. The kamikazes achieved success through
mass and relative surprise. Radar was still in its infancy, so they were able to mass approach more-or-less before the USN knew what had hit them. Nowadays, the Navy has AWACS and OTH radar; this shyt can track missiles skimming the water at supersonic speeds, you think a couple of speedboats or jetskis is going to escape their notice?
Now, the
Sea Tigers of the LTTL gained some success using unconventional naval tactics, the distances were much shorter and the enemies were much weaker. In a hypothetical scenario, the US Navy simply wouldn't play the Sea Tigers' game.
