Oh God the anti carrier crowd is back.
What the Yamato did not have was the backing of the world’s #1 superpower, with virtually unlimited assets and technological know-how.
The USS Gerald Ford DOES.
Which means that the USN’s techniques for disrupting/destroying/intercepting all of the low tech “bogey-man” weapons that the author arrays against it will continue to be well ahead of any such weapons, allowing for the carrier to be able to carry out her mission.
To continue the analogy, had the Yamato such a backing force behind it, no US planes could have gotten through to attack it, and she could have just parked off of the target zone while raining hellfire on her enemies ... just like the Iowa-class battleships were, in fact, able to do, at the same time.
So ... to sum up ... a nice attention-grabbing article for the author, but as an indictment of the Nimitz-class carrier capabilities ... not very accurate.
Any questions?
I remember when Ronald Reagan was president, Senator Gary Hart of Colorado wanted the Navy to build small aircraft carriers.
Secretary of the Navy John Lehman derisively called those proposed ships, “Gary Hart carriers.”