Abstract
For more than six decades, the aircraft carrier has been America’s primary foreign policy tool for deterring potential aggressors, managing crises, reaffirming U.S. alliances, and showing the flag the Far East, a region of vital economic and political importance to the United States. World War II and the wars in Korea and Vietnam confirmed the primacy of the aircraft carrier in modern naval combat, and the Navy used that recognition to impress friend and foe alike of the military power of the United States during the Cold War. Indeed, U.S. carriers were involved in 33 of the 43 crises and confrontations that took place in Asia from 1946 to 1990. i
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