[Jeff Head]

Yes we absolutely and most certainly do need to get much more serios. It is THE critical threat to our CSGs..

But that Song would not have been there in war time situations...at least not very easily at all. We announce where our carriers are going right now...for all the world to see. We shouldn't do that, and wouldn't in any serious conflict with any maritime power.

The DEs are not fast enough and do not have the endurance to try and keep up with, intyercept or shadow a CSG in transit...even the best of them. All they can do is hope to wait in the right place for a CSG to come along. In war, that would be a long shot...but one I am sure they would take.

[Paul Ross]

The DEs are not fast enough and do not have the endurance to try and keep up with, intyercept or shadow a CSG in transit

You're right.

That could have been fully addressed with deployment of enough nuclear escort ships, (unfortunately produced as only one-of-a-kind )
USS Long Beach (CGN-9)

And the Bainbridge (CGN 25):

All three (inclusive of the USS Enterprise) together on cruise in Operation SeaOrbit.