Melody Cook/Center for a New American Security
Melody Cook/Center for a New American Security
Business Insider: Retired US Navy captain: The centerpieces of the Navy's future double down on a 20-year-old strategic mistake
Aircraft carriers are the ultimate symbol of American military dominance.
Weighing tens of thousands of tons and costing billions of dollars, these vessels allow the US to project power around the world far from its shores.
But according to a retired US navy captain, the prime time of aircraft carriers may be coming to an end as strategic mistakes committed by the US over the past 20 years has limited these vessel’s capabilities while leaving them open to strikes from new emerging threats.
Retired Navy Capt. Jerry Hendrix, writing in the Center for a New American Security, makes the case that aircraft carriers have steadily lost their utility over the past two decades.
WNU Editor: The above two images show how naval aviation range has fallen in the past 20 years .... and to be blunt .... I am shocked to see how much this has changed over time. The full report on the "rise and fall of naval aviation" is here.
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"“It is an evolutionary force, not a revolutionary force, and it’s an easy target for rising powers that seek to overtake it.”
This is a telling statement. As the airplane doomed the Dreadnaught, miniaturization, digitization, missile technology, AI, and satellites, will do the same for carrier battle groups. How much longer do they have? Until they are more of a liability to defend than benefits gained from their use, which is soon. They will have a place on the seas, just radically different from today.
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