High Intensity Naval Conflict
Well, there is more than one way to look at that. A few months ago, I heard a USAF general point out that he could sink all the USN's carriers in one day using B-2 strikes from the USA. Since, for the reasons ponited out by others above [See Not A Boffin's post on the last page], you're not going to generate the capability to run a full air campaign from a deck (even the US can't do that), I wonder if anyone has done the investment appraisal of buying a sqn or two of global-range, survivable bombers (B-1B might even do) with CALCM/StormShadow for land attack and SDB for CAS, against operating one carrier which is probably going to be in the wrong place? Just a thought....
(Waits for cries of 'No HNS', 'Access, basing and overflight' etc... doesn't seem to bother the US in JV2020!)