I think our navy is Top heavy, in the we need more subs than Floating airbase’s.
I tend to be “a kill them all” as opposed to show off.
Sacrilege! Without carriers they would lose all those Admiral slots.
I agree. We have carrier battle groups that are supposedly protected by technology. Phased array radars all over, support from Arleigh Burke Missile Cruisers, etc.
And the Chinese have been working on overhead carrier killers with MIRVS (Long Duong), and a conventional air force that would just wither away our carrier based naval aviator force by sheer attrition. There just aren’t enough missiles, IMO.
I remind people here that it was a CHINESE sub who surfaced in within 5 miles of a carrier battle group exercise (undetected) in the Pacific in 2016