Our fleet being forward deployed provides among other things, flexible response and power projection. Would you also have us withdraw from Japan, Hawaii, Sigonella, Rota, and all our other forward allied locations?
If there is a need to project military power far from American shores, there are many ways of doing so employing modern technology. Nevertheless if the projection of that power requires capital surface ships, those young sailors are at extreme risk and are not serving on viable fighting platforms that would survive against a technologically sophisticated opponent. Sorry but the Navy has to rethink how it will do what you say is necessary for American national interests and defense. Put another way would you want your son or loved one serving on a destroyer in the Taiwan Strait or Persian Gulf if hostilities were to begin?