Intel: Navy downplays Iran hawks' messaging on latest deployment
Al-Monitor Staff May 6, 2019
A day after US national security adviser John Bolton trumpeted the deployment of a US carrier group as a “clear and unmistakable message†to Iran, the US Navy’s top admiral lowered the temperature a notch this morning in a speech near Washington. Chief of Naval Operations John Richardson indicated that the deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln group to the Middle East had been planned “for some time now†and described the move as an example of “dynamic force employment,†the Pentagon's model of sending out troops and other assets at seemingly irregular intervals to keep US adversaries off balance.
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