Originally Posted by
ORAC
One builds carriers to project power to the other side of the Pacific - the other builds carriers (and islands) to sanitise the South China Sea and neutralise the first.........
Either carriers are vulnerable, or they are not.
It matters little where they are.
The simple fact is that the country that has developed the alleged capability to render carriers ineffective is building it's own. This seems to suggest it is rather less cut and dried.