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But while the carriers are sailing through the canal, aren't they sitting ducks for just about everything?

• vlehto 10y ago
  DoD is not to actually going to do it often. It's preferable to have carriers based on both sides of continent anyhow. In defense in general, it's often lot more important to have capabilities and possibilities. Those alone can act as deterrence or threat. Which is often enough to gain the underlying political goal. In naval defensive context, the doctrine is historically called "fleet in being". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_in_being https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_in_being