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Re:The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers by fit2rule on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @03:05PM (#11904465)
Thats extreme. Its not that the US shouldn't have a blue-water navy. Just that it shouldn't have a useless, expensive, dangerous one: which is what it has right now, at least in the case of war.

(I'll concede one thing, carriers are useful in times of non-war: as a policing force and threat to lesser nations ..)

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Re:The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers by sirtaj on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @03:56AM (#11907783)
It didn't work in 1971, when Nixon deployed the Enterprise and the rest of Task Force 74 to the Bay of Bengal to intimidate India during the war with Pakistan. All it took was a couple of Soviet submarines to call their bluff.
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