And despite the protestations, CVS + F35C is not the panacea to all things.
100% agree and I wouldn't dream of arguing that we should just have CV capability and no land based air. It is the fact that you have an aircraft with the capability to deploy from sea, from our own national asset, not reliant on anyone else. I would disagree that this is not worth the cost.
Again, keep hearing how flexible and agile our forces are but to be dependent on so many other foreign assets seems to disprove this.