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Hard to believe that you had to ask that question at this date. It reminds of the politician's question once asked of the Admiralty early in the last century:
"What is the navy FOR?"
No one had an answer, the question had never come up. So they went on building Dreadnoughts, and when war came, had to impress fishing boats and fishermen to sweep mines, and didn't that work out well at the Dardanelles?
I caught the reference to "This People's Navy", Kenneth Hagen's book that asked the same question about 20 years ago. Even then he was noting that a fleet designed to force itself into the Barents Sea and nothing else would leave the US with a lot of unnecessary processed steel when the USSR went belly up.
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