Since Forbes is pushing against deployment of the the Gerald R. Ford, I am for deployment - they are ready. I don’t need to waste a few minutes of my life actually reading Forbes, because they are a leftist propaganda rag. Anyone quoting this rag probably has some ‘closet’ leftist leanings (LOL).
Absolutely, you have to deploy it. The carrier is incredibly effective at projecting American power around the oceans of the world. A shooting war with the Russians or Chinese make them and everything else obsolete. EMP puts us back into the 19th century so carriers will be of less concern than the entirety of our domestic technology instantly being turned into junk.