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Nuclear Powered Aircraft Carriers: The Nation’s Number One Asymmetric Military Advantage

There has been a lot of talk lately by senior Pentagon officials that the U.S. military is losing its long-held advantages in high-end warfighting capabilities. If one accepted uncritically statements by the Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary and Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology & Logistics about how well our prospective adversaries are inventing and deploying new capabilities that undermine areas of U.S. military advantage, it is possible to conclude, as some in the media and the think tank class have, that the United States is in decline as a military power. - See more at: http://lexingtoninstitute.org/nuclear-powered-aircraft-carriers-the-nations-number-one-asymmetric-military-advantage/#sthash.5YziRrWj.dpuf