China Targets US Carriers

This is why I consistently advocate moving the fleet underwater. This report comes from World Net Daily:

According to an assessment published last week in the Jamestown
Foundation's weekly "China Brief," the People's Liberation Army navy "is
developing methods to disable or sink American aircraft carriers and gathering
the specific force packages to do so."
The analysis, written by China expert
Richard D. Fisher Jr., says Beijing "has long anticipated that to militarily
subdue democratic Taiwan it will first need to win a battle against the United
States."
...In his analysis, titled "To Take Taiwan, First Kill A Carrier,"
Fisher says that China's naval strategy may be to make defending Taiwan too
expensive for the U.S. in terms of manpower, assets and political pressure.
"By actually sinking" an American carrier, Beijing hopes "to terminate U.S.
attempts to save the island," Fisher said.
According to recent Chinese media
accounts cited by Fisher, PLA navy officials appear to be focused on
neutralizing U.S. carrier battle groups.

Here's an interesting observation from Maj. Gen. Huang Bin, a professor at the PLA National Defense University, which I often make myself:

"The United States likes vainglory; if one of its aircraft carriers
should be attacked and destroyed, people in the United States would begin to
complain and quarrel loudly, and the U.S. president would find the going harder
and harder."

Frightening but true. The loss of even one of our magnificent but increasingly vulnerable supercarriers with its 6000 crewman, would be a catastrophe far worse than the September 11 attacks, or even Pearl Harbor 1941. It would likely change our entire Expeditionary Naval Strategy that has been the foundation of our military power since World War 2.