Comment by csharpminor

I'm not sure that a replacement F-14 is thinking big enough here. David Wise's post in War is Boring, "The U.S. Navy’s Big Mistake — Building Tons of Supercarriers" (https://medium.com/war-is-boring/the-u-s-navy-s-big-mistake-...) puts forth a strong argument as to why the U.S. Navy needs a paradigm shift from carrier groups to increased funding for drones and submarines. Carriers are an extremely costly asset that are also vulnerable to cruise missiles (and those missiles are getting much more advanced).