The United States’ aircraft carriers have always been an almost untouchable deterrent, steel behemoths capable of projecting the full weight of the U.S. military wherever they deploy. Yet while many militaries could never hope to match the U.S. carrier fleet in size and strength, countries such as China, Iran and Russia have spent recent years adjusting their forces and fielding equipment designed to counter one of the United States’ greatest military strengths.
A report published Monday by the Center for a New American Security, a D.C.-based think tank that focuses on national security, claims that the Navy’s carrier operations are at an inflection point. Faced with growing threats abroad, the United States can either “operate its carriers at ever-increasing ranges … or assume high levels of risk in both blood and treasure.”
You can read the rest @
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/02/22/report-u-s-aircraft-carriers-unchallenged-primacy-may-be-coming-to-a-close/
Here is a link which allows you to download their report:
http://www.cnas.org/growing-threat-to-us-aricraft-carriers#.Vsst0_krLIV
Frankly I am not bothered by this. If might makes right, then the underdog should have a fighting chance.
If we need to come up with a "new American security", it should be based upon diplomacy and compassion, not bullying and military might.
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