Carrying On. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead last week dismissed notions that the sea service’s carrier force was quickly becoming a relic of warfare. After his speech at an unmanned technology symposium at the Brookings think tank in Washington, Roughead said the Navy’s carrier fleet would become more, not less, important in future conflicts. Aircraft carriers, he argued, were essentially “moveable sovereign airfields” and were not hamstrung by the various lease and host nation challenges that other installations…
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