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by unyttigfjelltol 712 days ago
Carriers outswarm long-range missiles and out-loiter long-range air patrols.

But more to the point if you can't defend a mobile ocean-going fortress, what can you defend?

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> if you can't defend a mobile ocean-going fortress, what can you defend?

Underground bunkers (I believe Sweden has a decent history of converting caves into aircraft hangers). Just as we don't really have conventional fortresses on land any more, only trenches and bunkers, as munitions get better we're reaching a point where the only way to keep anything safe is to bury it.