The aircraft carrier is not a defensive weapons system but one meant to start wars within other people’s nations and terrains. In short, it is an assault system, or mobile fort and airfield.
Global Security states that ‘America has nearly twice as many aircraft carriers – 20 – as the rest of humanity combined – 12 – and America’s aircraft carriers are substantially larger than almost all the other’s aircraft carriers. The Navy likes to call the big Nimitz class carriers “4.5 acres of sovereign and mobile American territory” — and all twenty American carriers of all classes add up to nearly 70 acres of deck space. …The rest of the world’s carriers have about 15 acres of deck space, one fifth that of America’s.’ Here is Global Security’s excellent and scaled to size pictorial representation of the world’s offensive fire power as compared to the Pentagon’s. Check it out at… carriers.htm
