The following pictures, just released by the U.S. Naval Air Forces Facebook page, are impressive for a lot of reasons.
First, they provide an impressive indirect “show of force”: there’s so much naval power (including USS Eisenhower just returned from its last deployment) docked at Naval Station Norfolk that it’s hard to believe Washington will ever be scared of the only Chinese aircraft carrier currently at sea.
Second, it seems to prove that the U.S. has not learned much from Pearl Harbor. Even if an attack on Norfolk would not be easy to conduct nor does not it seem a likely scenario, the impressive line-up of flattops in the most important American naval station raises the questions: is it better to concentrate or disperse?
I thought that Dec. 7, 1941, had showned that military targets have to be dispersed to be protected against (aerial, missile or terrorist) attacks.
But the stunning photographs taken at Norfolk most probably prove that dispersion is not a requirement of modern scenarios.
Image credit: U.S. Naval Air Forces
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