U.s. Military Headquarters Military Planning Build Floating in The Middle East
by Washington – United States Military (U.S.) plans to build a floating military base in the Middle East region. This was decided in the midst of rising tensions with Iran and also to intensify the battle with terrorists in Yemen.
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This plan was disclosed by The Washington Post newspaper, citing a confidential document, and reported by AFP on Saturday (28/01/2012).
Navy (Navy) mentioned the U.S. will modify an old war ships that are not used, into a new military base. This is done in response to demand U.S. Military Central Command.
This ship would become a kind of aircraft carriers, can accommodate high-speed boats and helicopters used by the elite Navy, Navy SEAL. Special operations forces to be of key importance in the strategy of U.S. President, Barack Obama, in making the U.S. military leaner and more agile.
This is following the Pentagon’s insistence that cutting the military budget of U.S. $ 487 billion or about Rp 4369 trillion over the next decade. Responding to this, a spokesman for Navy Forces Command, the Navy’s Fleet Forces Command, Mike Kafka denies that it plans to build a floating military base anywhere, especially in the Middle East. However, other Navy officials acknowledged that it was the middle of converting an old warship.
The process will be completed and then the new carrier will be delivered to the destination at the beginning of next summer. In the Navy’s secret documents, indicated that this floating military bases will be stationed in the Persian Gulf. Because, in the region had appeared the Iranian threat to close the Strait of Hormuz which is near in the region.
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