Not really sure that’s true, both the carrier and it’s escort in the US have quite significant air defence and land capability the escort thru tomahawk.ArmChairCivvy wrote:and also air warfare is not done just by the carriers (though once they succeed in that, the whole 'fire power' can be turned into offensive operations - not true for the other assets that are important early on).
The US will be using its amphibious carriers in this role of air wings for lessor conflict. When you spend oddles of $ building a vertical take off stealth jet and putting them on things like USS America it becomes harder to justify maintaining cvn numbers given increased anti access issues in a confrontation with China or Russia.