Aircraft Carrier Vs. Cruise Missile 13

Brian J. Dunn on the Chinese sub stalking USS Kitty Hawk:

...will UCAVs displacing manned aircraft mean we need large or even medium carriers to haul these smaller aircraft around? Will more smaller carriers work? Will we be able to scatter UCAVs on amphibous warfare carriers and even surface ships the way anti-ship missiles are now throughout the fleet? If we truly can fight networked, we will be able to mass effect from widely scattered assets unlike today's carriers which are the pinnacle of needing a single platform to mass effect.Right now, our carriers with manned aircraft are still a tremendous asset. But as the years go by, cheap precision missiles will erode their value. Several decades in the future, carriers may be too big and expensive to risk enterring an enemy's array of sensors that can detect and guide missiles to overwhelm a carrier's defensive systems. Since carriers last five decades or more, the carriers we have now could last through the period of their fighting value and phase out as their vulnerability becomes too great. Should we build large carriers anymore?

I say No, and even get rid of some we now have. Let's freeze carrier production for awhile, and rebuild our anti-sub forces. It will be cheaper and only take a few years. Or else we could wait for another Pearl Harbor, this time with Chinese cruise missiles instead of jap Zeroes.