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![How Israel is preparing for potential hostilities with Hezbollah over a gas rig](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2022/10/221007_IDF_ships_karish_rig-225x150.png)
Israeli forces in the north are on high alert, but a diplomatic solution could still play out.
By Arie Egozi![Eye On Africa, Navy’s New Ship Homeports in Crete](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/WoodyWilliams-225x150.jpg)
As Russian fighters fly in Libya and Turkey steps up operations in the region, the US just put its new sea base capable to surging Marines and commandos ashore into Crete
By Paul McLeary![Thousands of Marines Sail To Middle East; Iraqis Vote To Eject US Troops](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2020/01/26MEU-225x150.jpg)
As President Trump threatens strikes on Iranian military and civilian targets, British warships and a US Marine MEU head to the Middle East.
By Paul McLeary![CNO: USS Lincoln Persian Gulf Trip No Surprise — ‘Planned For Some Time’](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2019/05/Lincoln-225x150.jpg)
CNO John Richardson said Monday that, essentially, the Persian Gulf deployment was business as usual. “The Abraham Lincoln Strike Group was planned to deploy for some time now,” he told the SeaAirSpace conference.
By Paul McLeary![Allies Diplomatic Note To Moscow: 2 Carriers, 7 Ships, 1 Ambassador](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2019/04/Stennis-225x150.jpg)
While two carriers attracting most of the attention, a smaller US footprint is being established between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, where Russia — and Turkey — are raising concerns.
By Paul McLeary![New Second Fleet To Stay Lean, Unpredictable, Commander Says; & Watching China](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2018/11/Second-Fleet-225x150.jpg)
The Arctic will become increasingly crowded in the coming years, and the US Navy’s Second Fleet is making it a priority to get up there more often.
By Paul McLeary![Royal Navy Lands 1st F-35B on New Carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2018/09/F352-e1538160581298-225x150.jpg)
“We’re not going to pretend it’s easy,” Rear Adm. Keith Blount, assistant chief of the Naval Staff told reporters. “But this isn’t unfathomably difficult for us. We are enjoying going back into the big time, and this is one of those big steps on that ladder. It’s hugely exciting and should be reassuring to those back home and to those on this side of the Atlantic.”
By Paul McLeary![NATO, Russia Prep Biggest War Games Since Cold War](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2018/08/NATO-225x150.jpg)
WASHINGTON: Within the next several weeks, both Russia and NATO will kick off some of the largest military exercises since the end of the Cold War. Hundreds of thousands of troops, tens of thousands of vehicles, hundreds of aircraft, and dozens of warships will charge into action in a series of mock engagements stretching from…
By Paul McLeary![Pentagon Sounds Alarm Over Sub-Hunting Tech Shortage, Hypersonic Funding](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2018/03/X-51-hypersonic-test-090717-F-0289B-222-225x150.jpg)
WASHINGTON The Navy says it is running short of critical submarine-detecting sonobuoys, thanks to stepped-up submarine activity by Russia in the Mediterranean and around Europe. As a result, the service has asked Congress to reprogram $20 million to buy more of the detection devices in an Omnibus funding package the Pentagon sent to Congress earlier…
By Paul McLeary![Russia Builds ‘Arc Of Steel’: Adm. Ferguson](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2015/10/guided-missile-cruiser-USS-San-Jacinto-and-Russian-Navy-destroyer-Admiral-Chebanenko-225x150.jpg)
WASHINGTON: “We are observing the manifestation of a more aggressive, more capable Russian navy,” the US Navy’s top commander in Europe said today. And if that fleet is Putin’s seagoing hammer, missile bases ashore are his land-based anvil. Complementing Russian naval modernization, Adm. Mark Ferguson said, we have seen “the construction of an arc of…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Russians In Syria Building A2/AD ‘Bubble’ Over Region: Breedlove](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2014/09/Syria-Airstrike-map-Sept-24-225x150.jpg)
WASHINGTON: In keeping with its increasingly aggressive behavior over the past two years, Russia is deploying lethal and long-ranged anti-aircraft defenses to keep Western forces out of three key regions: the Baltics, the Black Sea, and, now, the Levant. From where NATO’s top commander Gen. Philip Breedlove sits, the Russian forces flowing into Syria don’t look…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Do Marines Have To Hitchhike At Sea? The Real Story](https://sites.breakingmedia.com/uploads/sites/3/2014/11/BA14-LPD-Arlington-Dutch-boats-from-bridge-of-DE-WITT-IMG_0309-225x150.jpg)
WASHINGTON: Is the US Navy really so short of warships that Marines must catch a ride on foreign vessels, like heavily armed hitchhikers? The answer is, well, sort of. Where there’s smoke, there’s often fire — the Marines definitely could use more amphibious warfare ships — but on this story, politicians, lobbyists, and some of…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Turkey’s recent intervention in Libya is intensifying a proxy war and regional energy competition that threaten vital U.S. interests, while Washington mostly observes from the sidelines. As fighting grows in the Mediterranean country, the United States urgently needs to assume an overdue leadership role to end or mitigate this spiraling conflict. The time…
By Eric Edelman and Charles Wald