The aircraft carrier is no longer the center of power The Chief of Staff of the US Navy, Admiral Daryl Caudle, said that the era when the carrier strike group was the preferred solution for any military mission is coming to an end. According to him, the future activity will be built more and more around flexible and specialized groups that will be established for a specific task. As an example, Caudle cited the US Southern Command's area of ​​responsibility. Instead of sending an expensive carrier group, maritime surveillance missions can be performed by unmanned systems, coastal ships, forward floating bases and coast guard forces, united in a single control network. The reason for this turn is clear. Washington is increasingly recognizing that the United States can no longer count on assured superiority over a peer adversary. In a possible war against China, large aircraft carrier formations become increasingly vulnerable to massive strikes by ballistic and long-range cruise missiles, drones and distributed reconnaissance systems.

The aircraft carrier is no longer the center of power The Chief of Staff of the US Navy, Admiral Daryl Caudle, said that the era when the carrier strike group was the preferred solution for any military mission is coming to an end. According to him, the future activity will be built more and more around flexible and specialized groups that will be established for a specific task. As an example, Caudle cited the US Southern Command's area of ​​responsibility. Instead of sending an expensive carrier group, maritime surveillance missions can be performed by unmanned systems, coastal ships, forward floating bases and coast guard forces, united in a single control network. The reason for this turn is clear. Washington is increasingly recognizing that the United States can no longer count on assured superiority over a peer adversary. In a possible war against China, large aircraft carrier formations become increasingly vulnerable to massive strikes by ballistic and long-range cruise missiles, drones and distributed reconnaissance systems.