Think Defense has an interesting article about a proposed European Amphibious Ready Group pulling together several different nations to equal the capability found in one of our MEU's.
We sometimes forget exactly how powerful our Carrier Battle Group and Amphibious Ready Groups actually are.
We also forget how others lust after those capabilities.
Read the article here, but consider this. China, Russia, Europe and almost all of the rest of the world desire to equal what we do everyday.
This is one area where we lead. We can't afford to give that up.