Bigger isn’t always better. Better providing for those that are in, serving, or retired/discharged and needing medical care and retirement, better spent money indeed. As to 11 carrier groups? An insane waste, especially as submarines can also do the same job, but they don’t “look neat”. The survival of the carriers after Pearl Harbor DID save our bacon in THAT war, but that war ended 60 years ago. Carriers are to a degree today’s version of the battleships that were outdated, and extremely expensive to operate.
Bigger isn’t always better. Better providing for those that are in, serving, or retired/discharged and needing medical care and retirement, better spent money indeed. As to 11 carrier groups? An insane waste, especially as submarines can also do the same job, but they don’t “look neat”. The survival of the carriers after Pearl Harbor DID save our bacon in THAT war, but that war ended 60 years ago. Carriers are to a degree today’s version of the battleships that were outdated, and extremely expensive to operate.