I think our naval future lies with many smaller missile and anti-missile frigates.
Yeh, tend to agree. Must say though that my crystal ball is very murky as to what it will look like. But, if the mission of the carrier battle group is to project power then it must reinvent itself. Now that virtually any of our potential adversaries have the ability to build or buy low cost hyper speed missiles regardless of size or level of technology of our defense systems they can be overwhelmed by numbers. It’s inevitable that a few missiles would penetrate and get through and take out the carriers. So, it’s my guess that in the future our big carrier groups will maintain stand-off positions with their protective screen expanded. What the future holds beyind this I have no clue.