US carrier redeployment from Middle East reflects competing strategic interests, analysts say
Voice of America
FILE - An F/A-18F Super Hornet launches from the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Philippine Sea on March 18, 2020. The Navy announced on Sept. 12, 2024, that it was moving the aircraft carrier out of the Middle East.
The U.S. decision to pull the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt out of the Middle East, amid Israel’s escalating wars in Gaza and Lebanon, is seen by analysts as a reflection of America’s competing security interests there and in Asia.
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