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CDR Salamander - Old and Busted: Pacific Pivot. New Hotness: Caribbean Pivot.

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I’m old enough to remember when the Fourth Fleet AOR was the sleepy island of misfit toys. Well, as the irreplaceable Ian Ellis informs us,

America’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), departed Split, Croatia, en route to SOUTHCOM. After the carrier strike group crosses the Atlantic, ~19-23% of the deployed US Navy fleet will be in theater.

As expected, his graphic tells the story.

World map centered on the Americas highlighting US Navy deployments with red dots marking positions in USNORTHCOM USCENTCOM USEUCOM USINDOPACOM USAFRICOM and USSOUTHCOM regions showing total battle force of 287 ships with 19 deployed and 23 percent in theater infographic below details Southcom 4th fleet carrier strike group elements including silhouettes of destroyers cruisers submarines and the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier strike group redirected to south enhancing force presence with bar charts indicating increases like US Navy ships 14 to 40 percent tomahawk missiles 13 percent fighter aircraft 60 to 70 percent sourced from US Navy USMC US Army etc

We are all hearing things and seeing things. Best stick to what is in open source. For every hand you see, there are ten more moving.

At this moment, there is one place the U.S. military is taking consistent military action. That place is in the Western Hemisphere against drug cartels caught in the open sea transporting poison north.

As for Venezuela, it has a population roughly that of Texas, and is about the size of Texas and Oklahoma combined.

We are not going to war with Venezuela. Might we spank Tren de Aragua harder? Perhaps.

Should you keep a weather eye out south? 100%.

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