[doctorpangloss]

In your opinion, did any of those accidents occur in operations of some importance, small or large? What if the military simply ran fewer missions?

So what if there were Chinese naval operations in a place where American operations occurred?

[nradov]

The military doesn't really have the autonomy to reduce their own mission set. The major missions in terms of maintaining certain capabilities or protecting against certain adversaries are assigned by Congress and the President. The military then has to figure out how to execute within a budget that, while enormous in absolute terms, is still inadequate for everything they're tasked to do. There is no political will to fix this problem.