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I'm John Thatcher with Professor Evan Ellis of the U.S. Army War College.

The USS Gerald Ford is a super, super carrier.

It has an air wing of F-18s, all the accompanying surveillance and preparation aircraft.

In addition, behind that, or its carrier, are destroyer escorts.

Those are battleships from another age filled with Tomahawk missiles.

It's usually a submarine associated with it, and it's joining a flotilla that's been in the waters

for some time. In other words, there's enough naval force here to take on the planet Mars.

So, the professor, the question immediately is, to do what? Where do we see this going?

And are we looking at preparation for a land invasion? Can we tell? Well, that's certainly a great

question, John. And clearly the combination of the Marine amphibious ready group and the

22nd MU, the Marine Expeditionary units, plus the F-35s, plus some of the Marine amphibious ready group and the 22nd Mew, the Marine Expeditionary Unit, plus the F-35s, plus some of the other things that can be brought on from continental United States seem far, far, far more firepower than what you need to go after drug boats, although, you know, clearly that's been the official focus, the operation so far.

And so there is a speculation that perhaps

with the arrival on station of the Gerald Ford. So in addition to the nine U.S. Navy

combatants ships that you already have in theater, the three amphibia ships, the three destroyers,

the one cruiser, the one submarine that's there to protect the ARG

Mew and the special operations ship that you have there.

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