[grey_whiskers]

Midway.

The Japanese lost four carriers.

[meyer]

Midway - good analogy.

Replace fighter-bombers with drone swarms and a huge abundance of missiles. A simultaneous attack designed to overwhelm the defense systems.

And the plan to destroy the USA would dictate that destruction of the greatest Navy on earth be drastically weakened. Falls right in with all their other activities.

[LonePalm]

The Japanese had six large, for the time, carriers at Pearl Harbor. Six months later, four of them were on the bottom of the Pacific.

If we had six Carrier Battle Groups in the Med we would have more air power than every nation touching the Med, combined, including Israel. One Nimitz or Ford-class is worth six of the smaller carriers operated by France, Italy, and Britain.

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