Tom Rogan is a foreign policy/national security writer for the Washington Examiner. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in War Studies from King's College London, a Master of Science in Middle East politics from SOAS, and a Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of Law, London. Among others, he has previously written for National Review, the Telegraph, and the Guardian.
The deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford-led Carrier Strike Group 12 to the eastern Mediterranean Sea has one key mission: deterring the Lebanese Hezbollah from opening a second northern front against Israel. This concern took on added concern on Monday when Hezbollah and Israeli forces exchanged fire. A number of Hezbollah fighters were killed in that skirmish.
The aircraft carrier and its escorts will pass Sicily around midmorning Eastern Daylight Time Tuesday and arrive on station off Lebanon sometime on Thursday morning. Alongside its destroyer and cruiser escorts, the strike group has a very significant air-to-ground combat capability. If so ordered, it could launch hundreds of Tomahawk cruise missiles at Hezbollah forces and command centers. Israel could provide the intelligence to support these strikes.
Of note, the Gerald R. Ford's strike group's embarked Carrier Air Wing 8 has an electronic warfare squadron and four F/A-18F fighter squadrons, three of which flew in support of Lebanon-related operations in the 1980s. Importantly, the eastern Mediterranean is not the East China Sea. Neither Hezbollah nor the Lebanese Armed Forces have the capacity to significantly threaten any of the strike group's assets.
Top line: Hezbollah knows that this carrier strike group could impose significant costs on it. The group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and his patrons in Tehran must thus now factor in an additional risk as they consider their next moves.
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