The references are pretty interesting for this article. I highly recommend the "Pentagon's Wasting Assets" article by Andrew Bachevich, which talks about this

The references are pretty interesting for this article. I highly recommend the "Pentagon's Wasting Assets" article by Andrew Bachevich, which talks about this in a section of it from a less inflammatory perspective (mostly focusing on the Hormouz and Taiwanese Straits, as well as the 2002 war game mentioned below) It's a known thought that since the late 80s, the Chinese Navy has been led by strategists who follow Mahanian decisive battle theory. It'll be interesting to see how carrier air groups are integrated into a theory that was adopted in the turn of the 20th century for a 'big gun'/dreadnought/battleship navy that was made obsolete by the emergence of naval air power. Billy Mitchell just keeps winning...