{"id":12716,"date":"2016-09-07T14:57:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T18:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexingtoninstitute.org\/?p=12716"},"modified":"2016-09-07T14:57:04","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T18:57:04","slug":"u-s-overseas-bases-much-vulnerable-aircraft-carriers-national-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/u-s-overseas-bases-much-vulnerable-aircraft-carriers-national-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Overseas Bases Are Much More Vulnerable Than Aircraft Carriers (From National Interest)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of talk recently about the threat posed to U.S. aircraft carriers by the anti-access\/area-denial strategies of countries like China.\u00a0 If you understand how resilient and well-defended U.S. aircraft carriers are, then you probably already know these fears are exaggerated.\u00a0 However, here&#8217;s something else to consider: If forward-deployed aircraft carriers are at risk from Chinese or Russian missiles, what does that say about\u00a0overseas bases?\u00a0 What it says is that they&#8217;re even more vulnerable, because unlike the carriers they aren&#8217;t moving.\u00a0 You can disrupt an attack on a carrier strike group, and by the time the enemy reconstitutes the warships will be far away &#8212; hiding in thousands of square miles of ocean.\u00a0 That&#8217;s not an option with land bases,\u00a0since their location is fixed.\u00a0 No matter how many times you disrupt an attack on them, eventually enemy weapons will get through.\u00a0 So aircraft carriers are intrinsically more survivable than land bases against enemies implementing anti-access\/area-denial strategies.\u00a0 I have written a commentary for The National Interest <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalinterest.org\/blog\/the-buzz\/us-overseas-bases-are-much-more-vulnerable-aircraft-carriers-17612\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of talk recently about the threat posed to U.S. aircraft carriers by the anti-access\/area-denial strategies of countries like China.\u00a0 If you understand how resilient and well-defended U.S. aircraft carriers are, then you probably already know these fears are exaggerated.\u00a0 However, here&#8217;s something else to consider: If forward-deployed aircraft carriers are at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>U.S. Overseas Bases Are Much More Vulnerable Than Aircraft Carriers (From National Interest) - Lexington Institute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/u-s-overseas-bases-much-vulnerable-aircraft-carriers-national-interest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"U.S. Overseas Bases Are Much More Vulnerable Than Aircraft Carriers (From National Interest) - Lexington Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There&#8217;s been a lot of talk recently about the threat posed to U.S. aircraft carriers by the anti-access\/area-denial strategies of countries like China.\u00a0 If you understand how resilient and well-defended U.S. aircraft carriers are, then you probably already know these fears are exaggerated.\u00a0 However, here&#8217;s something else to consider: If forward-deployed aircraft carriers are at [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/u-s-overseas-bases-much-vulnerable-aircraft-carriers-national-interest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Lexington Institute\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-09-07T18:57:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtoninstitute.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/lex_share.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Loren B. 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