[snoringbear]

“ A war with China would be absolutely insane, beyond hell on earth and would last forever, no way we could win against a country with a population of 1.5 BILLION I don’t care how much more advanced we are militarily. How are you going to take a military of about 1.5 million and control 1.5 billion people? Look how long it took to get a handle on Iraq and Afghanistan which is still effed up.”
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A war with China would not be nuclear nor traditional war as we may think of it. While there may indeed be incidents of traditional warfare such as with Taiwan, Vietnam, etc, the war between China and the US will be predominantly cyber warfare, cyberspace, satellites, etc. there will not be US boots on the ground on mainland China. Btw, our super carrier fleet is now obsolete much the same as battleships were going into WWII.

[BroJoeK]

snoringbear: "Btw, our super carrier fleet is now obsolete much the same as battleships were going into WWII."

Battleships were far from "obsolete" in WWII.
They were very useful in shore bombardments and against smaller ships.
That's why they kept being brought back out of mothballs for the next 50 years!
Indeed, today's latest destroyers have all the capabilities of old battleships, and much more.

But the old battleships were ineffective against aircraft & torpedoes and the ranges of their offensive weapons, while accurate, grew relatively shorter & shorter.
So they could only be used under limited circumstances, and that may also become the fait of our older aircraft carriers.

For another example, think of the old B-52 bombers -- still in service, still work perfectly well, but can only be used where threats against them are minimal.
That's the future of existing aircraft carriers.
Whether future carriers can be designed for more... ah, "challenging" environments, is yet to be seen.

A modern battleship: