Now Hear This: Maintaining Our Global Maritime Primacy
By Lieutenant Colonel Jay A. Stout, U.S. Marine Corps (Retired)
More pundits are declaring the end of the aircraft carrier's relevance; it is fashionable to eulogize the centerpiece of our naval preeminence. These "experts" declare that advances in weapon technologies have made the big ships vulnerable, and that the capabilities of our own missiles and land-based aircraft render them unnecessary. Indeed, just two years ago in the pages of Proceedings , retired Admiral Stansfield Turner stated, "It is difficult, though, to expect any weapon system to dominate for as long as 65 years, especially when military technology has been changing markedly."
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Jay A. Stout, now a senior analyst in the defense industry, spent twenty years as a U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot flying F-4s and F/A-18s. During the Gulf War he flew thirty-seven combat missions. An Indiana native and 1981 graduate of Purdue University, he now lives in San Diego, California. Stout is also the author of Hornets over Kuwait, The First Hellcat Ace and Hammer from Above: Marine Air Combat over Iraq, among other books.
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