Aircraft Carriers Obsolete

[Smitty-48]

Another thing that never makes sense in these pronouncments of American doom at the hands of the Russians, is the seeming idea that somehow America would only be playing defense, "ZOMG Russian subs!", when the American subs are exponentially more dangerous, an American SSGN can slip into the Barents right under the Russian's noses without them knowing that it is there, with 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles; bye-bye Russians bombers, right on their ramps.

The Russians can either fight covert and assymetrical, or they could just go for broke and try to nuke the CONUS, but for anything in between, they just don't have the horses to go head to head. They have a nuclear counterforce option, extreme high risk, but they don't have the conventional forces to fight a conventional war, so it's covert, or its nukes, but there's nothing in between.

Never did, and never will. As always, it is ALL about the nukes, baby.

With the Russians it really is, they will escalate straight to the nuclear option, one way or the other, without even stopping to bother with a conventional war, because they know they can't win a conventional war, so at the high end of the spectrum, they basically have two choices, nuclear surprise attack, or nuclear blackmail.