Half the things America did in total war once provoked do not exist now.
If we were provoked by a easily sunk Carrier with 6000 aboard... there are 18 million fighting age 18 to 30 who will be drafted. It takes 6 months to whip them to green replacements and a year that no one has to finish them as proper riflemen for Marines or Infantry. They expect about 9 million to rebel all over our Cities if that was to happen again.
China is and regularly able to call up 2 million plus overnight and they are on the line wherever needed in a week. Russia has a ability to call up and transport A,B and C formations west with more tanks than God and for each tank followed by 3 times that many infantry carriers.
It would be better to be friends with them from strength rather than show weakness as we have under Obama in so many ways... ugh.