Questioning the Carrier: Opportunities in Fleet Design for the U.S. Navy by Vandenengel, Jeff

Questioning the Carrier: Opportunities in Fleet Design for the U.S. Navy

The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is naval history's most powerful and versatile warship. It is the reason the...
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Author: Jeff Vandenengel
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Questioning the Carrier: Opportunities in Fleet Design for the U.S. Navy by Vandenengel, Jeff

Questioning the Carrier: Opportunities in Fleet Design for the U.S. Navy

$131.93

Questioning the Carrier: Opportunities in Fleet Design for the U.S. Navy

$131.93
Author: Jeff Vandenengel
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is naval history's most powerful and versatile warship. It is the reason the U.S. Navy is the predominant force at sea today. Throughout its illustrious history, the carrier has overcome serious flaws, including its expense, vulnerability, centralization of combat power, and its airwing's short range. The U.S. Navy always accepted those flaws because the carrier was the best means of delivering firepower. Today's technologies, however, provide key opportunities for the U.S. Navy to move beyond the limitations of a carrier-centric fleet by redesigning its force structure.

Questioning the Carrier examines how the U.S. Navy can embrace the Age of the Missile, network the distributed fleet, and diversify to develop a fleet that benefits from the aircraft carrier's many strengths without being wholly dependent on them. By acting on those opportunities, the U.S. Navy can develop a structure that performs the carrier-centric fleet's functions more effectively using a force consisting of more platforms with less total risk and within the same long-term budget. As adversaries are improving their ability to deter the carrier thus causing its utility to wane, the author examines the Navy's past successes to show how it can overcome institutional resistance to change and continue to rule the seas.

Author: Jeff Vandenengel
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 11/15/2023
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781682478707

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