Something is brewing up in the Gulf

[Diopos]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Well the precise specifics I cannot judge, I refer just to this passage from the first link i provided:
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Meanwhile, Chinese Silkworm-type cruise missiles fired from some of the small boats sank the US fleet's only aircraft carrier and two marine helicopter carriers.
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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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