Westfield,
My reply was in response to post #4075 which, paraphrasing, suggested carriers and aircraft are white elephants if destroyers firing TLAM can do the same job. The modern version of the Duncan Sandys argument.
There are occasions when TLAM are the right weapon. There are equally many more where they are not for either cost, time, targeting or other reasons - and why the USAF has FJs and the USN carriers instead of arsenal ships.