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I seriously doubt the US has the capability of conducting and supporting such a huge amphibious operation.

Technically we do, Congress would recieve a hailstorm of angry shipping company CEOs calling them about how this will ruin them, yadda yadda, and it would cripple our shipping. Then these ships need to be protected at the expense of defending our Coasts and more people will scream.
 
I seriously doubt the US has the capability of conducting and supporting such a huge amphibious operation.


If they brought together all their amphib ships & so forth, there's no reason why they couldn't. Of course, with such a huge committment, that'd mean the US couldn't continue with their military policy of being able to conduct major operations in two separate theatres of war, but in truth the US probably hasn't been able to do that anyway since the mid 1990s
 
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