Another advice: Read more carefully.
I do not say they are incompetent. I say they'd be incompetent if they did what he thinks they did.
Plus I see no need to reply to your point about commitments, for we seem to be in agreement.
The point of these alliance relationships is to prevent an attack on these countries. The point is not to win once they're under attack.
Besides; prepositioned material and airlift of troops are a quicker and cheaper method of reinforcing said allies than cruising with more than a dozen battlegroups on the seven seas with never more than one or two MEU in range for an as timely reserve (and they would likely wait till many more CVBGs are in the area before they'd actually dare to close in with Taiwan, for example.).
Again; the size and all is impressive, but the forces would look very different if they were really about waging major wars. Congress politics (including legalised bribery) and bureaucratic dynamics are the real drivers, not actual preparations for war.
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