The Pentagon has ordered the deployment of additional assets to the Middle East that will arrive in the coming months, to replace a carrier strike group that will be leaving the region, Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said on Friday.
The assets will include additional destroyers, fighter squadron and several B-52 long-range strike bombers, Ryder said. They will arrive as the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier prepares to depart.
The post US to deploy additional military assets to Middle East to replace departing aircraft carrier appeared first on Egypt Independent.