US Carriers will repeat History in following the usage of the British Dreadnoughts. In WW1, the Dreadnoughts were too valuable to be risked. So they were reall

US Carriers will repeat History in following the usage of the British Dreadnoughts. In WW1, the Dreadnoughts were too valuable to be risked. So they were really only used once, in the non-conclusive Battle of Jutland which only lasted a couple of hours. Millions of Pounds (the equivalent of Billions of Dollars, in today's money) were wasted on ships that were locked safely away because they were too valuable to be actually used in combat. That money could have been far more usefully employed elsewhere. The same can be said of today's billions of Dollars wasted on useless slow, very expensive targets (= carriers).