[mewzilla]

AKA Power Projection.

I concur!

And these days, there are leaner and meaner ways to do that.

I'm not for one minute suggesting, as you said I did c_v, that we decommission them all. I can see all kinds of scenarios where a carrier or carriers would be necessary. But, to my mind, we don't need as many in service as we used to. I'm agnostic as to how many we should keep in the fleet.

[ro_dreaming]

One other thing about carriers. They are also floating water desalination, hospitals, logistics marvels to be used in medical emergencies - for example, Typhoon’s and/or massive flooding in the Pacific islands.

[central_va]

I can see all kinds of scenarios where a carrier or carriers would be necessary.

This is called a walk back.