3 ms·
Aircraft carriers project US force 'anywhere'. It's politically complicated to just 'put an airbase somewhere'. This is going to change as Carriers become mor
by jollybean 4y ago
Aircraft carriers project US force 'anywhere'.
It's politically complicated to just 'put an airbase somewhere'.
This is going to change as Carriers become more difficult to defend.
But then so is everything.
- afterburner 4y agoCarriers have always been hard to defend in open total war. The fact that they are useful in relative peacetime has largely to do with nuclear deterrence, and the US's overwhelming naval and air superiority over most of its opponents. If a serious opponent starts sinking US aircraft carriers, then the war is already escalating far beyond that level.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago>Carriers become more difficult to defend Carriers are also very difficult to sink. And that's if you even manage to get past their countermeasures and actually manage to land clean hits. You need to be really lucky or the fleet command needs to be really incompetent.