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- From: "david.r.wells" <drw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com>
- Subject: Re: B2s v. carrier task force
- Message-ID: <C17vxH.FAo@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
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- References: <C0utIH.JDH@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <C124LM.7AD@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:41:41 GMT
- Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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- From "david.r.wells" <drw@cbnewsg.cb.att.com>
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- >In article <C0utIH.JDH@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>,
- >David Beard <beard@cs.unc.edu> writes:
- >>
- >>
- >> I have heard it suggested that 15 or 20 B2s, based in the United States,
- >> and setup to carry conventional precision guided bombs, could replace
- >> a number of our carrier task forces.
- >
- I've been reading through this thread, and I have to say I agree with most
- of the other posters who state that carriers are still necessary. If you
- accuse me of being biased toward the Navy, well, I guess I plead guilty.
- Rather than repeat the arguments others have made about being close to
- the action, I'm going to bring up historical precedent.
- This thread sounded VERY familiar to me. Back about 1949, the Air
- Farce (Just kidding! :-) suggested pretty much the same thing, that with
- the B-36's global reach, carriers were obsolete. In the short term, their
- arguments were successful, and even got the carrier United States (CV-58)
- cancelled. But then, war broke out in Korea. Remember how successful the
- B-36s were there? (Were they even used at all in the Korean War? Not to my
- knowledge!) The carriers were used extensively in Korea, for exactly the same
- reasons we've been debating here. They were close, could react faster, had
- shorter sorties, etc, etc, etc.
- In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, "it's deja vu all over again".
- (perhaps misquoted?)
-
- David R. Wells
-
- DISCLAIMER: The same one as usual.
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