Arquilla Slaps Carriers Around
Excellent rundown on the irrelevance of behemoth carriers –
This plan constitutes a huge waste of taxpayer money and exemplifies the Defense Department’s fixation on preserving legacy systems designed for a kind of war that the U.S. is likely never to fight again.
Why won’t the next Administration get rid of this white elephant? President-elect Obama simply has too little military expertise to take on the carrier champions, even though his senior adviser on strategic affairs, former Navy secretary Richard Danzig, has in the past called for reducing carrier crew sizes. But Danzig did not call for moving away from giant carriers, and he is unlikely to urge Obama to do so anytime soon.
So it appears that the carrier will live on, at great cost to the American people and at increasing risk to our national security.
-Shlok
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