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NATION: Are America's supercarriers the weapon of the future or a throwback? 14 In a time of random violence and global tension, the U.S. projects power overseas with a fleet of formidable but vulnerable flattops. Reagan scraps two submarines to comply with SALT II, while a new mobile missile is studied. The furor intensifies over Michael Deaver's influence peddling. Nevada Senator and Reagan Pal Paul Laxalt cautiously eyes the presidency...
...then mocked the ungainly craft as a "covered wagon." More than half a century later, long after the carrier became the capital ship of the U.S. Navy, the doubters and true believers are still trading salvos in an engagement that has only heated up since ships of the Sixth Fleet sailed into harm's way in the Gulf of Sidra...
...late 20th century, monuments to military obsolescence. Would-be military reformers question whether enormously expensive supercarriers provide enough bang for the buck. If the U.S. tried to re-enact the Battle of Midway against the Soviet navy's modern cruise missiles and submarines, they warn, the American fleet would wind up like the Spanish Armada--on the ocean floor...
...having three new Nimitz-class nuclear carriers. Lehman makes clear that he wants a carrier force that can engage and defeat the Soviet navy. At the outbreak of a war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in Europe, he would send carriers storming toward Norway to block the Soviet fleet from reaching the North Atlantic. Sinking the Soviet navy, Lehman argues, would turn the battle of Europe, just as the Battle of Trafalgar ended Napoleon's dream of conquering England and the Battle of Midway first turned the tide against Imperial Japan in World...
...Harbor." Senator Gary Hart, founder of the congressional military-reform movement, argues that the submarine, not the carrier, is the capital ship of the future, and points out that the Soviets have 300 attack subs to the U.S. Navy's 100. In a nuclear conflict, he insists, the carrier fleet would be vaporized in a matter of minutes...