| Salnax said: In total, the United States has 10 aircraft carriers. For context, that's more than the rest of the world COMBINED. America also has a majority of the world's cruisers and over a third of the world's destroyers. In terms of sheer tonnage, the USA alone dwarves the combined navies of Europe. |
The problem is that we are not watching the movie "Battle of Midway" anymore. In those 1940ies times, a $1b carrier was essentially invisible to the ennemy and its aircrafts had the "right of first strike". Nowadays, I can sink your entirety of 10 carriers ($10bio) with roughly 200 missiles ($10million). While you try to rebuild your 10 ships ($10billion. 2 years if everybody is in the shipyards), I can take another 100 missiles $10mio, (1 week). In the end, the "power of a navy" has become a relative asset. The question is how do you resupply your troops and how do you distribute your troops if you want to conquer an entire continent?
