Wait no carrier battle groups? Well We had a good run 240 years or so well just thankful im getting old
We’ll still have CSGs. Just not as many as we need (9 plus 1 or maybe 10 plus one) and we won’t deploy them as often.
The LCS was a good concept: you don’t need a Burke Class Aegis Destroyer for many missions (like providing a stable deck for SEALs to cap Somali pirates with sniper rifles) and if you’re going to build a ship for littoral ops it’s good to have it multimission capable (so replace the dedicated mine hunters and some of the ASW frigates).
But like a lot of government projects it got overloaded with requirements, became gold-plated and is nowhere near cost effective for the missions it’s most likely to conduct (anti piracy and other ops in low threat areas)