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| US Super Carrier |
As President Barack Obama announced to the world on January 5th, the Pentagon’s new, Pacific-focused strategic guidance for the coming decade will require a fundamental revaluation of the budget and structure of the current two-ocean U.S. Navy.
As aircraft carriers are the benchmark by which naval power of all blue water navies has been judged since the end of World War II, one difficult decision facing the U.S. Navy in the coming years will be the size and composition of its carrier fleet. Currently, U.S. naval strategists have two choices - large fleet carriers, epitomised by the laying down of the first of the new Gerald Ford class carrier in 2009, or a shift towards the smaller light carriers typically used by Europe’s medium-sized powers. Thus far, the U.S. has committed almost entirely to a large carrier fleet.
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