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General Category => Military/Defense News => Topic started by: rangerrebew on April 27, 2019, 11:26:53 am
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Is There an Unprecedented Build-Up of US Naval Power in the Middle East?
by Seth Frantzman
The Jerusalem Post
April 25, 2019
Two US aircraft carrier strike groups operated in the Mediterranean Sea this week. The USS Abraham Lincoln, on its way toward the Persian Gulf from Palma de Mallorca, crossed paths with the USS John C. Stennis, which had come from the Gulf and had left the Suez Canal for the Mediterranean.
A massive amount of air power and US naval assets were suddenly in the same place at the same time. As if that wasn't enough, the Stennis had just carried out a joint pass exercise with France's Charles de Gaulle Carrier Strike Group in the Red Sea.
https://www.meforum.org/58331/build-up-naval-power-middle-east (https://www.meforum.org/58331/build-up-naval-power-middle-east)