#1 2019-03-05 08:52:18
Good Bye CVN-75, you are but the first obvious casualty of the changing of an era.
We really don't need ships that are basically a floating coffin for 7,500 sailors any longer.
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#2 2019-03-05 12:15:18
Astounding, really. In less than 80 years they've gone from the greatest power on the seas to the law of diminishing returns.
However, as the article pointed out,
While the Pentagon does indeed decide a lot of things, it doesn’t get to decide the size of the carrier fleet. That is a joint decision made by the commander in chief and Congress. Not even the most able of defense secretaries, chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or chiefs of naval operations get to “decide” to cut a carrier.
Like everything else these days, this stinks of politics.
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