Yes, but my understanding of their defensive strategy for tbe south China Sea is largely contingent on their ability to saturate a carrier group's defenses with

Yes, but my understanding of their defensive strategy for tbe south China Sea is largely contingent on their ability to saturate a carrier group's defenses with missiles and torpedoes, and then fire a few more in order to score kill shots (I unfortunately can't find the source where I read this). It's a poor strategy for power projection, but theoretically it's a comparatively economical method of negating America's capacity to power project in the region. Here's a National Interest article on the dialogue around it: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/aircraft-carriers-vs-chinas-missiles-military-contest-our-time-59247 https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/aircraft-carriers-vs-...