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Originally Posted by livexxx
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...an-strike.html
THREE US Nimitz class carrier groups + 12 battleships, including ballistic missile cruisers, frigates, destroyers and assault ships carrying thousand of US Marines and special forces.
plus HMS Diamond (250 mile radar + PAAMS/SAMPSON = AEGIS++ )
A Syrian no-fly zone I expect within 14 days as the first step after this "excercise"
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So two thirds to one half of the US Pacific Fleet are out on patrol (routine) and the British are in the Med. (The French are utterly irrelevant.)
Seems normal to me.
The US always has a carrier group (or two or three) deployed to the Middle East.