by Katherine Kornei | Feb 3, 2015 | Monitor
Aircraft carriers are complicated. They’re floating cities and mobile airbases, housing thousands of sailors and airmen, tens of aircraft, multiple nuclear reactors, and their own hospitals, barbershops, chapels, and zip codes. Carriers support defense and...
by Sam LaGrone | Feb 11, 2013 | Monitor
The Navy is dealing with the military’s impending budget fiasco by putting its aircraft carriers on the firing line. It’s unexpected, but it might actually be a smart move — if Congress cancels the deepest budget cuts. (Big if.)