US Department of Defesne
Alex Lockie, Task & Purpose/Business Insider: Here’s All The US Navy Firepower On Alert In The Pacific To Keep North Korea In Check
As tensions reach a fever pitch between the U.S. and North Korea, with Pyongyang announcing its intentions to fire missiles towards the U.S. territory of Guam, the U.S. Navy has continued to patrol and span the entire Pacific ocean with power and reach unparalleled on earth.
Near Japan, within a short steam of Guam and the Korean Peninsula, sits the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier strike and the guided-missile destroyers and cruisers in its strike group.
The Reagan’s strike group is the only forward-based aircraft carrier in the U.S.’s arsenal and trains specifically for Asia-Pacific-specific missions. One of the destroyers in the group recently conducted freedom of navigation operation against excessive Chinese maritime claims in the South China Sea.
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WNU Editor: It is not what it can be .... the U.S. can deploy more .... but the hope is that it will be enough to dissuade North Korea from making a fatal mistake.
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