Good Hope: A positive case for the UK Carrier Strike Group to take the Atlantic route around Africa

Good Hope: A positive case for the UK Carrier Strike Group to take the Atlantic route around Africa

12 Aug 24
Posted by: Lt Joshua Wynn RN
5 minutes, 29 seconds read
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The author, an RNSSC Richmond Fellow, makes the case for alternative African routeing for CSG25. A 5 minute read.

Anyone who has seen the Houthi’s most recent information campaign regarding the approaching USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier strike group (CSG) will be aware that the unrecognised government of much of western Yemen has in no way been beaten into submission, or even chastened, by coalition airstrikes under Operation POSEIDON ARCHER. The carrier, in the words of their leader Abdul Malik al Houthi, “is a primary target for the missile forces of the Yemeni Army.” Whether the Roosevelt enters the Red Sea or not remains to be seen, but the video also throws down the gauntlet to the new British govern…

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