Brief Naval Update: Ike Coming Home

This illustrates the difficulty of trying to stay on top of events at a granular level. Yes, the Ike is returning to the Med through Suez, but No, it is not redeploying to the Levant. It will head back to Norfolk. It looks like the Italian carrier Cavour will try to cover for the Ike while the USS Teddy Roosevelt prepares to replace the Ike. The question remains: Why did the Ike pull away from Yemen—a thousand kilometers away—and stay away for weeks? It remains possible that the Houthis really did manage to hit it:

U.S. Central Command @CENTCOM

Fair winds and following seas to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (IKE CSG) as they return home to their families.

Flying over 30,000 hours and sailing over 55,000 miles the IKE CSG demonstrated our commitment to regional stability and protected freedom of navigation throughout the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The IKE CSG also upheld their commitment to safety of all seafarers, rescuing mariners in distress on several occasions following unprovoked attacks on innocent mariners by Iranian-backed Houthis.

Following completion of a scheduled exercise in the Indo-Pacific, the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) Carrier Strike Group will enter the CENTCOM Area of Responsibility bringing with it capabilities that enhance CENTCOM’s ability to deter aggression, safeguard regional stability, and protect freedom of navigation in the region.

1:37 PM · Jun 22, 2024

One can only laugh at the rhetoric in the announcement. The Houthis made a mockery of globalist pretensions to reopen the Suez to Anglo-Zionist oriented shipping. The tactic of forcing the US to expend vast quantities of expensive munitions and other resources, all of which can only be replaced very slowly, will probably pay dividends in the future. In the meantime, the Anglo-Zionist empire has no Plan B.