During that tour, my job was to train carrier battle groups as they prepared for deployment.
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Chris Vernon in Kuwait City said three battle groups had set out for the center of Basra.
Two US carrier battle groups, the USS Enterprise and the USS Carl Vinson, are in the area.
Two MRCs will require deployment of all available carrier battle groups plus amphibious ready groups and maritime task forces.
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It requires not 10 aircraft carrier battle groups but, to do it right and when and where needed, 20.
The Americans, confident that China would quickly back off, sent two aircraft-carrier battle groups to the region as a warning.
"It does raise the question of why we need 10 carrier battle groups and close to 100 attack submarines, " he said.
America's two carrier battle groups stationed off Taiwan during last year's crisis were a clear symbol of America's superior military power.
The F-35 has the advantages of stealth, giving it a better chance of defeating YJ-12 launchers farther from U.S. carrier battle groups.
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The Russians and Chinese are perfecting new generations of advanced missiles, including some designed to defeat defenses and destroy carrier battle groups.
We can successfully carry out such a strike because we will have a unique "window of opportunity" with four carrier battle groups in the region.
But I was also very troubled by the realization that our initial incursions into Afghanistan and Iraq required four and five carrier battle groups respectively.
Some of the battle groups have met some resistance from irregulars.
The fact that the secretary points out that we have 11 nuclear-powered carrier battle groups compared to the fact that no other country has even one is irrelevant.
For example, it seems demonstrably prudent under present circumstances to suspend steps now in the offing to reduce the number of carrier and battleship battle groups or withdraw American personnel from most forward bases.
Rep. LANTOS: Well, U.S. aircraft carrier battle groups have done a great deal of good globally for many decades, and it is my hope that we will not need to utilize them, but saner counsels will prevail.
China's growing armoury would make it far more difficult for America to respond to a crisis in the Taiwan Strait in the way it did in 1996 when it sent two aircraft-carrier battle groups close to the island.
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Ironically, there are rumors of flagging Navy support in recent budget deliberations for a program that could effectively provide U.S. carrier battle groups with several means for mitigating these missile threats: the Navy Unmanned Combat Air System (N-UCAS).
In view of their inherent flexibility of operation, power-projection capabilities, and relative independence from fixed forward bases, the Navy should retain not fewer than 14 battle groups configured around carriers, and at least 2 battle groups configured around battleships.
The People's Republic has no aircraft carriers (the U.S. maintains 11 carrier battle groups), no long-range strategic bombers (the U.S. has 174) and funds this stumbling juggernaut with a budget of 14 cents for every dollar the U.S. spends on defense.
The U.S. Navy provided five carrier battle groups with one more in transit to the theater, two amphibious ready groups, and two amphibious task forces for a total of more than 70 surface combatants and submarines plus 37 Military Sealift Command ships.
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In this manner, carrier battle groups, battleships and other naval and Marine assets have rapidly demonstrated a tangible American interest in the outcome of any incipient conflict frequently serving thereby to deter the initiation or to influence the course of actual hostilities.
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While those missiles were influenced by the old U.S. Pershing 2 radar guided ballistic missile, China's system is far more capable and effectively keeps U.S. carrier battle groups out of their range until the U.S. Navy can put enough truly effective anti-missile defenses to sea.
While Congress forced President Clinton the next year to send two carrier battle groups into the region as Chinese missiles were launched into the ocean off Taiwan's major ports, the North Koreans -- and every other malevolent regime on the planet -- could not have helped but be impressed by the potency of China's missile-backed blackmail.
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President Clinton's hapless efforts to prevent Puerto Rican displeasure at the U.S. military's use of the vital Vieques live-fire training range from harming the campaigns being waged by his wife and Vice President Gore is giving rise to the worst of both worlds: Navy and Marine battle groups unprepared for combat operations and increasingly expensive bribes for unappeasable separatists.
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