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Originally Posted by TLAM Strike
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.
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TLAM that's the reason I posted my comment. I can't find a reason for putting a CVN in the Persian Gulf during a conflict. My question was why the hell they're "war-gaming" it. Sending a "message" to Teheran? Anyway, in a geostrategic level, a CVN group is much more useful as a "threat" rather than being threatened itself. Of course that's my amateur point of view .....
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