Airyx wrote:
Mike Weeks wrote:
Airyx wrote:
I wouldn't put any carriers in the Med. No point in relying on allies that
have to share a border with Iran

Carrier's don't often enter the Persian Gulf, ...

Thay have in fact been doing so on a regular basis since 1990.

I know that they have, but most of the time they stay out in the
Arabian Sea,

Only when they shift to lend direct support for OEF (such as what
Enterprise has been doing recently [she's back in the Gulf, having had
a port call at Jebel Ali, departing on Oct. 23]) -- otherwise when they
enter the Fifth Fleet area of operations, they proceed into the Gulf.
It's more a case of occasionally not being in the Gulf.

and in a conflict situation with Iran, transiting the
strait would be asking for trouble, when it isn't necessary.

That depends on the ROEs ... g