One must question Capt. Hendrix's thinking when he writes this kind of comment, as he did...
While the carrier of today is more capable, each of the ten can be in only one place at a time
The U.S. Navy Needs to Radically Reassess How It Projects Power | National Review Online
At first glance he seems to have a point with this...primarily because the American public has been conditioned by the media to be abject cowards who think with their feelings, not with any sort of logic...
the U.S. should stop building carriers: They are too valuable to lose. Losing a platform with nearly 5,000 American souls onboard would not just raise an outcry, but would undermine public faith in elected officials.
Of course, the sinking of a capital warship would be an act of war, and it is entirely probable that America would A) declare war on the nation that did it and, as a result B) triple the defense budget (or more) in response, undermining most of his arguments re: budget.