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Originally Posted by Diopos
Alright, can someone please explain to me the US Navy's fixation on "game playing" the insertion of aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf? The US won't play an "Iranian gambit" without local land bases of operation, anyway. Plus the CVNs will still be useful, in larger (and safer) bodies of water, rather than the "narrows" where you f*rt in Persia and it smells in Oman (excuse my language  ).
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The only reason the US sends its carriers in to the Gulf is to show that it can. The only ships the US has in the gulf on a permanent basis are a couple of mine sweepers.
In a real conflict the carriers would be a thousand miles off shore in the Indian Ocean. The only ships in the Gulf would be escorts for the tankers, mine sweepers and maybe a cruiser.