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Re:The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers by jonknee on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @06:53PM (#11906004)
I can't imagine a scenario where our carrier fleet is in imminent danger that doesn't qualify as an existential threat. We haven't faced that since WW2 and Japan did end up on the receiving end of nuclear arms.

US carriers carry over 5,000 sailors, having one taken out would be almost unimaginable (a one time event with more US deaths than the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined).

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Re:The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers by emp_zealoth on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @08:22PM (#11906428)
You might want to step back and just reconsider how riddiculous it sounds. 5000 soldiers over millions of civilians? Really? Existential threat would be invasion force / bombing run / missile strike coming to continental US territories. Anything else is just "they took our toys"
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Re:The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake: Building Tons of Supercarriers by mcv on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @06:41PM (#11912687)
I don't think you know what "existential threat" means. It means your home country itself is in danger. Losing a single carrier only slightly reduces the US's ability to project force around the globe. But even with all carriers gone (not something that's ever going to happen), it would still be folly to attack the US on its own soil.
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