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Originally Posted by Knalus
I think you meant: for America's political will to become inflamed. Remember the Maine!
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Not this time, after what has been a half generation of war. If the Russian's hit a carrier showing that they're not the invincible unbeatable navy, and the news programs show a carrier in flames, and body bags in the dozens or hundreds start flying home to pictures of grieving families, the American political will is going to vanish. Obama will be attacked on all sides of the floor for his weakening of American Foreign Policy and weakening of America's military.
If a carrier gets hit it also puts a massive hole in America's naval strategy and protection of strength.
America has 10 aircraft carriers now not all of them are active and I don't have their status, but I would assume that half of them are in yard right now or in workups for deployment. the rest are in the Arabian Sea, the Indian Ocean, usually somewhere around the South China Sea.
If you take one out it leaves a a major hole in their Planning.