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As Carriers Leave the Pacific Undefended, Can America Call Itself the World’s Top Superpower?
As American aircraft carriers are absent in the Indo-Pacific region for the first time since 2005, can the United States rightly call itself the world’s top superpower? Beyond Washington, enemies are taking notes and testing that proposition with increased …