Greetings, loyal minions. Your Maximum Leader is quite busy today. And as much as he would like to comment on this very thoughtful post from Buckethead at The Ministry of Minor Perfidy, he cannot right now.

Let it suffice to say that your Maximum Leader (who agrees that Battleships are sexy but completely out of place in today’s theatre of operations) generally agrees with Buckethead on this one. (Which makes two in a row. First Frank Lloyd Wright. Now the future of our Navy.)

Your Maximum Leader isn’t quite sure he’s in full agreement with the rapidity of how quickly the Carrier will become obsolete. Perhaps with improvements in naval aviation and specilization of support ships the age of the Carrier can continue for decades more. But the truth is that the Carrier’s reign as queen of the seas is fading. The thought of Carriers having a useful lifespan of 50+ years (like B-52s for example) is unlikely.

The idea of space based military systems is one that must be seriously examined now for deployment in the future. (But we probably want to worry about the development of killer robots. Well almost all killer robots. There might be one or two that are acceptable…)

Carry on.