I think we are in an era where we perhaps need to completely re-evaluate our technology and the future of warfare -- especially naval warfare -- as we did in WWII.

I agree, it would not be wise to send in a carrier or a carrier group (or more than one) as I think they no longer represent naval "superiority". Given present missile technology (among all the major powers), carriers are no longer invulnerable and are, in fact, of questionable value.

In short, no country can really impose itself by naval forces alone on the waters of any other country.

The country that attempts to do so in 2015 may learn that lesson the hard way.


This is no longer a unipolar world in that regard.

The oceans are not ours any more than they are England's at this point.

That is reality.


But human beings have never been very fond of reality.