Somebody in the Pentagon is telling Bammy what is going to happen. Could also be that Saudi Arabia is calling the shots.
Cannot you just see that conversation in the White House:
CNO: Sir, I think we should move a carrier group into the Gulf of Aden.
POS: OH, why would there need be ships in the garden of eden, after all, some early book mentions such a place but I don’t recall anything about more than an apple.
CNO: Well Sir, we recommend you approve it. Think of it this way, you are playing your nightly game of Stratego and you need to make a flanking move.
POS: Ha, I never make flanking moves, whatever that means, I make no moves except backward. Ever see me address a golf ball?
CNO: Sir, this is important, we have to deter Iran from off loading weapons into Yemen.
POS: Yemen, I said it was our success, what the heck is Iran doing, allegedly according to my advisor Jarrett, off loading weapons there?
CNO: They are fighting our allies Sir.
POS: Good, they need to do that then as any ally of the US is no ally of mine. Send the order to ensure no one bothers the Iranian Fleet. And don’d come back unless called.
Cannot you just see that conversation in the White House:
CNO: Sir, I think we should move a carrier group into the Gulf of Aden.
POS: OH, why would there need be ships in the garden of eden, after all, some early book mentions such a place but I don’t recall anything about more than an apple.
CNO: Well Sir, we recommend you approve it. Think of it this way, you are playing your nightly game of Stratego and you need to make a flanking move.
POS: Ha, I never make flanking moves, whatever that means, I make no moves except backward. Ever see me address a golf ball?
CNO: Sir, this is important, we have to deter Iran from off loading weapons into Yemen.
POS: Yemen, I said it was our success, what the heck is Iran doing, allegedly according to my advisor Jarrett, off loading weapons there?
CNO: They are fighting our allies Sir.
POS: Good, they need to do that then as any ally of the US is no ally of mine. Send the order to ensure no one bothers the Iranian Fleet. And don’d come back unless called.