December 29, 2020
The U.S. Navy’s First Fleet is Returning to Deter China
The U.S. Navy is currently overstretched.
by Peter Suciu
Here's What You Need to Remember: The U.S. First Fleet was in operation from January 1947 to February 1973 and operated in the Western Pacific as part of the Pacific Fleet. It was disestablished and its duties assumed by the U.S. Third Fleet.
Last month, Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite called for the re-establishment of the U.S. First Fleet, which would be a new numbered command that could help build-up the U.S. Navy’s presence in the vital Pacific and Indian Ocean seaways to Australia’s north. The calls come to help ward off further expansion and aggression in the region from Beijing.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/us-navy%E2%80%99s-first-fleet-returning-deter-china-175330