Aircraft Carriers - What is their future?

[Dill]

(07-19-2017, 08:10 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: Afghanistan may be one of the most expensive places for us to send troops on the planet. We have had to secure overland supply routes through Pakistan and air support bases in places like Uzbekistan. Of course, that is one of the reasons why terror organizations choose hard to get places like that. They fester in the armpits of the world. Naval aviation can't help us a whole lot there because of how far inland it is.

The Uzbekis shut us out 10 years ago. Bases in A stan were largely supplied by the overland routes you mention.  At FOB Salerno in 2011 a single spaghetti dinner cost the US taxpayers $22.  But as you say, its geographical situations imposed unique costs which were not there for most other bases.  The overland supply route was far from secure.