The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers

Re:The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers by nxzero on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @09:00AM (#11901711)

Classical war is dead.

All conflicts long-term going forward will be won with economic resilience; meaning even if attacked, invaded, controlled, etc. - long-term the attacking force's culture will succumb to economic attrition.

Future of war is economic.

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Re:The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers by lmkg on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @09:11AM (#11901763)

War has always been economic. The ability to win wars is not the ability to inflict losses, but the ability to sustain losses--both economically, and politically.

You might make an argument that for a brief period around modern times, wars were lethal enough that this was not the case. But even during this time period, the ability to inflict damage was largely an economic factor.

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Re:The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers by dragonwriter on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @09:05AM (#11901739)

Economics and logistics (the latter being the ability to project the former where and when you need it) have always been dominant factors in war.

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Re:The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers by sitkack on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @01:35PM (#11903708)

We made Vietnam pay back all the bombs we dropped on it.

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