Say Goodbye to the U.S. Navy’s Aircraft Carriers

Say Goodbye to the U.S. Navy’s Aircraft Carriers

The U.S. Navy’s obsession with $13 billion nuclear-powered supercarriers has become a slow-motion strategic disaster that the aircraft carrier lobby refuses to admit. Modern anti-access/area-denial systems fielded by China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea have fundamentally upended the supercarrier-centric doctrine the U.S. military has relied on for decades—and the better path forward may be smaller nuclear-powered drone motherships built around …