@molowarmonitor

I waited several weeks before making this post, but now I can say something with certainty regarding the American aircraft carriers deployed in the CENTCOM area. Since roughly the beginning of September, I have not found the USS George H.W. Bush or the USS George Washington, nor the amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli, nor any other components of the carrier strike groups, such as Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, on Sentinel-2 satellite imagery. This implies that the U.S. has decided to pull back beyond the range of Iranian anti-ship missiles, thereby shifting the naval blockade line, which until August had been positioned at the exit of the Gulf of Oman. This strategic shift was likely prom…