WEBF...whilst you may not have directly slagged other ac types, you have posted enough links/quotes that do for members here to reasonably assume that you support the views of that which you quote. If you don't support them, you ought to make that clear.
It is very disingenuous of those ex-(emphasis on the ex)-military officers to try and "save the carrier" by linking it to anything and everything. How would AR and its handful of GR9s have enforced a NFZ? Sure, AD is needed as well as an ability to monitor and strike if necessary, but to claim we should have them back to do that job, at the huge cost it would take, is a fairly slack argument.
In an ideal world, we'd have 3 or 4 carriers with several dozen swing-role fighters embarked. But we don't have that kind of money, and claiming that a tiny through-deck cruiser with a handful of limited GA ac aboard would be good enough is simply stupid. As for blaming the RAF when the Navy decision to cut the FA2 signed the death warrant of carrier aviation for the forseeable future, and claiming that by cutting Tornado, enough could have been saved to leave the UK with a small boat and 3 sqns of GR9s as our only strike ac capability is a laughable defence policy.
Please......stop it.