Obama Starts Massive US Air-Sea-Marine Build-Up Opposite Iran

DEBKA ^ | May 20, 2010

[Fennie]

DEBKAfile's military sources report a decision by the Obama administration to boost US military strength in the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf regions in the short term with an extra air and naval strike forces and 6,000 Marine and sea combatants.

Carrier Strike Group 10, headed by the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, sails out of the US Navy base at Norfolk, Virginia Friday, May 21. On arrival, it will raise the number of US carriers off Iranian shores to two.

[Pecos]

Aliens. Iran. That could explain their form of government.
I’m just sayin’.....

[libh8er]

Methinks he is flexing his skinny arms but won’t actually do anything.

[HereInTheHeartland]

They might be needed in Korea instead.

[LibLieSlayer]

obama just wants to have as many of our assets in place as possible, so he can surrender in a bigger way.

LLS

[Slings and Arrows]

It's DEBKA. They're the Weekly World News of military intelligence.

[SoldierDad]

But, but, but, . . . our military is stretched too thin.

[newnhdad]

might have to direct them a few thousand miles east..

[xzins]

And why do we assume those carrier groups are not intended to intercept and prevent an Israeli attack? And launch a counter-attack?

[Gator113]

Obama gets ready to offer Iran an “at sea beer summit”.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Fennie.

DEBKAfile's military sources report a decision by the Obama administration to boost US military strength in the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf regions in the short term with an extra air and naval strike forces and 6,000 Marine and sea combatants. Carrier Strike Group 10, headed by the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier, sails out of the US Navy base at Norfolk, Virginia Friday, May 21. On arrival, it will raise the number of US carriers off Iranian shores to two.