We have fewer carriers now than we did at the time of Pearl harbor . You hear about new ones because the last of the great navy president Reagan wanted is being finished. The ship scrapers will soon moth-ball these new ships too. For every carrier scraped the peace dividend people get too mothball a nuclear submarine- a fleet oiler-two nuclear guided missile crusiers-four guided missile destroyers-fleet cargo ships and at least 10,000 sailors. it does not matter that it takes ten years to design and build a carrier task force.
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