With airfields all around and everything within shooting distance, there is no reason for a CBG to be there. Maybe cruise into the Arabian sea occasionally for ops, but certainly not the Gulf. Especially the Strait of Hormuz.
Of course it’s an effective triple-dog-dare, spectacular even.
The entire gulf can be protected with shore based air power, 2 diesel boats, 6 corvettes and 4 frigates.
And if every tanker cannot be protected every hour, it’s adequate deterrent.
That’s what I think our Navy should be doing these days. Simply protecting US-flagged commercial and merchant vessels. If other countries and companies want our protection, a nominal fee would suffice.
We just spend too damn much.
It’s really an absurd place to put a CVN, whose natural home is open ocean.
that sounds fine to me. I would suggest that Trump could ask the European NATO countries to start pulling their weight by sending their warships to the gulf. The kids would love it and it would be great training.