A Third Aircraft Carrier and Strike Group?!
Here’s a bit of truly significant news that seems to have gone unnoticed outside of defense-focused journals and outlets: The U.S. has deployed a third nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and strike group to the Middle East. It should reach its destination in 10 to 12 days.
So much for a short non-war war.
On Saturday, March 7th, the U.S. Navy Nimitz Class nuclear-powered supercarrier USS George H. W. Bush and its strike group ‘set sail’ across the Atlantic in order to add support to the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS Gerald Ford, and to their extensive strike groups and airwings. The three, combined, add at least 20,000 personnel to the region.
Aboard the USS Bush is Carrier Air Wing Eight (CVW-8), which typically includes 44 F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighters, five EA-18G Growler electronic warfare jets, five E-2D Hawkeye airborne early-warning planes, and several C-2A Greyhound logistics planes and MH-60 Seahawk helicopters.
Its strike group includes three to four Tomahawk-armed Arleigh Burke class destroyers, a Ticonderoga class cruiser, a supply ship, and a nuclear attack submarine.
Defense officials explain this deployment, following an in-depth assessment of the situation, as an adjustment to the required force posture, reinforcing U.S. leverage in order to “compel Tehran to return to negotiations and address U.S. security demands.”
LOL and WTF?!
Washington suddenly abandoned negotiations in order to join Israel in bombing Iran, and all that savagery, requiring more soldiers and war machines in the region, was unleashed in order to force negotiations???
These people are either complete idiots or think that we all are.
The Iranians had agreed to all of the U.S. nuclear-based demands; expecting them to fully disarm is just stupid.
As I’ve said: the U.S. and Israel just want to destroy the country, if they can't fully control it.
Military experts speculate that this deployment offers a quick fix to the armaments shortage in the region, and that this ship’s focus may be Yemen, in order to ‘take care of the Houthis’ should they also start attacking Israel and/or Saudi Arabia.
The DOW (formerly, the DoD; read in that what you will), states that this carrier strike group’s presence will ensure maritime security in the Strait of Hormuz, allowing for the safe passage of commercial ships.
I hope insurance companies are convinced. But I doubt it.
This tells me that Washington realized that they’re in for a much tougher and longer fight than anticipated, and that Tel-Aviv and other Gulf States, like Saudi Arabia, are begging Washington to send reinforcements.
Trump is caught in an escalation trap.
The Navy’s largest and newest supercarrier, the USS Gerald Ford, built in 2017, transited the Suez Canal and arrived in the Mediterranean Sea on 28-Feb, the same day that the U.S.-Israel attacks on Iran were launched.
The Ford has now been at sea for more than eight months, having left a Mediterranean deployment to shift to the Caribbean Sea and back again to the Mediterranean. Wonder how much that cost tax payers?
