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is up now. He titled it "The Age Of Carriers Is Over." (Sort Of.), which is provocative, and he features a quote on that, and elicits comments on that.
However, he talks more about the format of an ongoing, weekly series on one book.
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Read the transcripts of the two shows. Good stuff.
As an old Naval Aviator I love the romance of carriers, but......they're not worth anything against an enemy that has an air force or, now, a missile threat.
The dirty secret is that you don't have to sink a carrier to put it out of business. Disable the catapults, put holes in the flight deck, cut the arresting cables, or get a raging fire going on the flight deck......any of these things will render a carrier unable to conduct flight ops. No flight ops, no ability to attack the enemy.
Every carrier I ever served aboard was an accident waiting to happen. Lots of inflammables on the flight deck just waiting for a bomb, rocket, or bullet to set the fire or explosions off. The fact that we've had so few on board fires are a testament to the professionalism of the crews. However, they've been operating essentially without any fear of attack from the air or surface since Korea.
Against countries with no air and missiles - still a useful weapon. Against a China or Russia - limited to no use.
Posted by Jim G. | January 17, 2007 10:55 PM
Did Sea Basing transformation go away,
or is it hiding in plain sight?
Posted by Lou Heberlein | January 18, 2007 1:21 PM