I honestly just feel bad for you?

Well said. Seems like this was just a reason to get enraged on a slow news day.

They had me at “Come get stuffed with us at our sausage factory!”

BUT BUT OUTRAGE@!?!

I’m so sorry for this, but: Comprises! Comprises! Not “comprised of.” Something is composed of stuff, and stuff comprises something.

Just because they haven’t been attacked, does not mean they haven’t been in a battle. Do you really think that carrier defense has been totally ignored for 70 years given that our entire doctrine is based on using said carriers?

By that logic, since we haven’t had a stealth aircraft shot down since 1999, for 18 years…

The shooting missiles and dropping bombs is battle.

You basically figured out the secret of a lasting marriage right there.

I married my husband because he looks like Ewan McGregor’s younger brother. I even get him to talk to me in a Scottish accent when I can’t reach orgasm.

those planes don’t engage in battle. They fly, shoot missiles and drop bombs

Subs aren’t keepin up with a carrier at speed, the ships don’t go straight they are constantly turning and doubling back. The carrier CAP will take out the air recon planes or the guided missile destroyers Aegis systems will. A carrier is a tiny object in a vast sea. It also has jamming abilities and point defense…

The actual (reinforcing) lesson of both the Yamato and Musashi is that airpower (and in those 2 cases especially, naval airpower) is critical to both attack and defense and that neither is much good without information and the means to disseminate said information. One could easily have predicted what was going to…

The bombers need to be refueled. The pilots need rest. The missiles need to be reloaded.

The last time an aircraft carrier has been used in battle was in World War II.

Great idea. Now all we have to do is to get the rest of the world to agree to play nice.

Unless you count the planes that they launched. You know, their entire function...

The largest threats to the American military are not exactly next door... Carriers give the US a strategic advantage. Are carriers “easier” to take down these days? Perhaps

Better ideas are welcome.

“Easy to sink.” People who don’t know what they are talking about shouldn’t write articles pretending to know what they are talking about.