Biden’s Carriers and Troops Send a Signal of Force If Diplomacy Fails
- Carriers give US ‘significant striking power’: retired admiral
- US says goal is to deter Hezbollah, other Iranian proxies
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President Joe Biden has spent the last week in frenzied diplomacy to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from spiraling into a broader conflict. But if those efforts fail, the US response may depend on the blunt force of its military.
The Pentagon has moved the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford and its battle group into the eastern Mediterranean, and the Dwight D. Eisenhower carrier strike group is on its way. Each bristles with F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets and other advanced aircraft. In addition 2,000 Marines have been put on heightened alert for potential mobilization.