Luria: Sending Japan-based USS Ronald Reagan to Middle East ‘Biggest Strategic’ Mistake in a Lifetime

Guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh (CG-67) conducts carrier strike group integrated operations USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) on June 10, 2021. US Navy Photo

Dispatching the Navy’s Japan-based forward-deployed aircraft carrier to the Middle East earlier this year to bolster the withdrawal from Afghanistan was a major strategic error, a top lawmaker on the House Armed Services Committee said today.

Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.), a former nuclear-qualified surface warfare officer and current vice chair of...

https://news.usni.org/2021/12/08/luria-sending-japan-based-uss-ronald-reagan-to-middle-east-biggest-strategic-mistake-in-a-lifetime

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