Navy to forward-deploy USS America, USS New Orleans to Japan

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2. I was thinking North Korea

or China related situations. Officially, 7th Fleet doesn't extend that far (Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea) for area of operations, I guess they could go there under some conceivable circumstances. Given the situations with North Korea in northeast Asia, and China in the East and South China seas I don't think they will leave the assigned Indo-Pacific region.

This is from the Navy 7th Fleet website:

AO: Covers 48 million square miles of the Pacific and Indian Oceans, from the International Date Line to the India/Pakistan border and from the Kuril Islands in the north to the Antarctic in the south. The region Includes 36 maritime countries, more than 50 percent of the world’s population, 3,000 languages and seven of the world’s 10 largest militaries. The U.S. maintains mutual defense treaties with five allies in the region to include the Philippines, Australia, the Republic of Korea, Japan and Thailand."

I came across the news in a speculative podcast about potential US military operations against Kim Jong Un.