If the Question Is China . . .
By Admiral James L. Holloway III, U.S. Navy (Retired)
. . . and its ambitious naval buildup, then the U.S. answer can be nothing short of maintaining a strong deterrent fleet of large-deck carrier task forces.
The number of aircraft carriers—and their associated carrier striking groups—in the U.S. Navy order of battle exerts a crucial influence on foreign policy. Today and into the future, the United States will go to war with no more than the carrier force in existence when the shooting starts.
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Admiral Holloway, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and veteran of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam, was the 20th Chief of Naval Operations. He retired in 1978 after 39 years of active duty.
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