{"id":428488,"date":"2026-03-13T22:40:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/03\/the-pentagon-is-moving-additional-warships-to-the-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T15:40:23","slug":"the-pentagon-is-moving-additional-warships-to-the-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/the-pentagon-is-moving-additional-warships-to-the-middle-east-428488\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pentagon is moving additional warships to the Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The WSJ reports that the US is moving additional warships to the Middle East, citing three US officials. It says that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved a request from U.S. Central Command, responsible for American forces in the Middle East, for an element of an amphibious ready group and attached Marine expeditionary unit.<\/p>\n<p>Such a unit would typically include several warships and 5,000 Marines, the officials said. <\/p>\n<p> The Japan-based USS Tripoli and its attached Marines are now headed for the Middle East, two of the officials said.<\/p>\n<p>On that ship:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>She is a America-class amphibious assault ship \u2014 essentially a flat-deck vessel that functions similarly to a light aircraft carrier. LHA-7 was built by Huntington Ingalls Industries in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and was commissioned in 2020. She is designed to operate the F-35B Lightning II stealth fighter as well as various helicopters and tiltrotor aircraft like the MV-22 Osprey. The America-class ships are notable for prioritizing aviation capability, with a larger hangar and flight deck compared to earlier amphibious ships, though the first two ships in the class (including Tripoli) lack a well deck for launching landing craft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The trip is roughly 6000 nautical miles, which would take 12-16 days, though it&#8217;s not clear when it left. <\/p>\n<p>So on the one hand, we have Trump talking like the war could be wrapped up in 4-5 weeks (2-3 weeks now) and we have a unit that won&#8217;t even get there until the tail end of that timeline. So what do we go with? What they&#8217;re saying or what they&#8217;re doing?<\/p>\n<p>The market appears to be increasingly betting on a more-prolonged timeline. The move here is to ensure the Strait of Hormuz is open but that could be a precarious task and it could take several more weeks than an oil price of $100 supports. That could also help to explain why countries are opening strategic oil reserves.<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Adam Button at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WSJ reports that the US is moving additional warships to the Middle East, citing three US officials. It says that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved a request from U.S. Central&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}