Re: Jets & Planes but no UAV's here.
That's really the problem.
Land based air is perfectly fine for home or pre-existing foreign base defense but if you want to be able to project power into and across the worlds oceans you need carriers. Even the minimal assets the UK had available for the Falklands were sufficient and the liberation of the islands would have been impossible without them.
Who you're fighting and where determines how much, if any, fleet air you need.
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