Abstract
The crisis in the Persian Gulf in 1997-98 has underlined the continued critical importance of aircraft carriers as a means of projecting military power. While some countries have decided that they can no longer afford to maintain such expensive vessels, others, including China, Italy Spain and Thailand, are acquiring them. France and the UK are unlikely to relinquish their own capabilities as carrier-owning nations.
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