New docs on Pearl Harbor attack emerge

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Originally Posted by ElAurens

OK, I'll play along...

The Russian Navy, if it is ever committed to a real conflict, will have a heroic, but painfully short, campaign.

I can sum it up pretty succinctly in one word...

Toast.

If they are foolish enough to engage the NATO navies in the open Atlantic they might last a week. If they are even more foolish and try to engage in the Med, 2 days, as they will be at the mercy of a navy's worst nightmare... Land based aircraft.

Just how many aircraft does the Kuznetsov embark? I'll tell you... Not enough.

The effect is not always based on numbers. In the situation that war have not not been declared a highly mobile force which no one can deny access due to the free travel at sea are a very powerfull tool.

It is about presence and show of force which can exploitet by diplomacy.
In a limit war settings such a force will have the ability to reach far beyond the frontline where the opposition can do little to oppose it. Like the US landing a Inchon, Korea, september 1950 which essentially turned the war.

I can recommend reading "Sea Power a Naval History" by E.B.Potter