I was just thinking about that the other day reading about the Gerald Ford Class and how hard the deployments are on the carrier battle groups.
We have no "in-between" carriers that we can just stick somewhere that doesn't require or risk a 100,000 Ultra Ship.
We need say four or five very modestly sized ships, very modestly crewed and a modest expense.
It would help so much with the rotation on the ships as well as the crew.
We do have some smaller carriers like the helicopter carriers.