A thousand pardons. I termed it in the infinitive as "to project power". Thank you for the clarification, I guess.Of course. If you're going to be superpower on the world stage and you are divided from most of the rest of the world by vast oceans, you have to be able to project power.So we have more aircraft carriers than the rest of the planet combined.Not sure where you get your info but its wrong.
2015 Aircraft Carrier Strength by Country
The US can put a carrier or two off almost any country in the world and have more local firepower than those countries.
That's how it works.
It's called "projection of power".