So what you’re saying, if I understand correctly, is that our Navy is pretty much “water infantry” to our Air Power “artillery?”
Not at all. Not a good analogy. Our Navy is the Prince of Wales and Repulse, promising that thick AA will keep any possible air threat out of range. It didn’t work out.
Even our own war-gamers acknowledge that our CVN battle groups are useless against China, in that the battle groups are in range of salvos of deadly land-based missiles long before our CVNs are in aircraft launch range of China.
It’s just math and physics, the rah-rah only gets people killed.