Since the Gulf War after the Cold War, there have not been many armed forces that dare to launch direct attacks on the US military, and the Houthis in Yemen are counted as one. Yemen's Houthis have launched a direct military conflict with the US military in the waters of the Red Sea-Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and their missiles and drones have also directly launched attacks on the US naval fleet. However, it is strange that while the "Red Sea War" between the US military and the Houthis is in full swing, the US military is withdrawing its military forces from the Middle East.
According to relevant sources, the two "large and small aircraft carriers" previously deployed by the US military near the Middle East, the strongest 100,000-ton nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Ford, and the "lightning aircraft carrier" Bataan amphibious ship, which can carry the F-35 vertical take-off and landing version, have all withdrawn from the Middle East.
On the one hand, the United States is withdrawing its military forces from the Middle East, but it is also strengthening the deployment of military forces in the Western Pacific. The USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier squadron has been deployed in the northern part of the western Pacific and has been stationed at the US Naval Base Yokosuka in Japan; in addition, the US aircraft carrier Carl Vinson is also cruising in the waters of the western Pacific after just completing a joint maritime exercise with the Japanese and ROK navies.
However, after these two aircraft carriers were deployed in the western Pacific, the US military was not enough, and actually dispatched the USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier from the west coast of the United States again with a Ticonderoga-class cruiser and three Burke-class aircraft carrier battle groups to the direction of East Asia in a vigorous manner. It can be seen that in addition to the two US aircraft carriers in Japan and the East China Sea, which have formed a trend of "one south and one north," the third US aircraft carrier has also arrived thousands of miles away, and the author believes that this Reagan is very likely to go to the South China Sea to carry out "linkage" with the Philippines, so as to carry out armed coercion from the two directions of Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia!
The United States is obviously "worried" about something by dispatching so many aircraft carriers with such fanfare. What exactly is the intention of the US military to reduce its military presence in the Middle East on the one hand and strengthen its military presence in East Asia on the other?
Let's talk about the premise first, for the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific are the three key "power points" for the United States to stir up the global situation, and at present, in the eyes of the United States, the first two have basically "stabilized", or temporarily formed a "balance of power".
In Europe, due to the Russian-Ukrainian war, the contradictions between Russia and European countries will not be eliminated for at least ten years, and at the same time, although Ukraine has been defeated, it is still holding on after all, and even without Ukraine, the United States still has the big framework of NATO in Europe and a group of "loyal" partners (Poland, Lithuania, etc.), so the advantages of the United States in Europe are relatively obvious.
In the Middle East, although the United States has declined slightly, Israel is still there, and a number of pro-American countries in the Gulf kingdoms of the United States are still there. Although the overall strength of Iran and other countries can confront the US military power in the Middle East to a certain extent, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other countries are still buying US "face" at least for the time being. Therefore, at present, Iran's power is not enough to change the dominant position of the United States in the Middle East. As for the Houthis, for the United States, they are nothing more than a "mustard disease" and cannot be said to be a "serious danger to the heart," which is why the United States has withdrawn some of its military forces from the Middle East.
However, compared with the Middle East and Europe, the strategic advantage of the United States in the Western Pacific has become more and more precarious. What the United States relies on in the Western Pacific is the so-called tripartite architecture system of the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. At present, with the extremely crazy clown of the "independence" faction in Taiwan, Lai Shunqingde, has been elected as a high-level public official in Taiwan. The possibility of our side taking over Taiwan by force is already increasing. At that time, the peninsula headquarters may also take advantage of the situation to move southward, and Japan will be isolated on an island and will not be able to get involved in the situation on the mainland on its own, and the so-called "military system" that the United States has painstakingly managed in the Western Pacific will be overturned.
Therefore, from a short-term perspective, the United States is worried that Taiwan Island will not be protected, thus "losing" the Western Pacific and even "global hegemony".
In the long run, the United States is concerned about the change in the balance of power between China and the United States. Nowadays, with the progress of the times, the mainland has become the world's largest industrial power, and its overall strength has long been unparalleled. With the blessing of a strong industrial system, the strength of our army has also developed by leaps and bounds. Even the United States has realized that within the so-called "first island chain," the U.S. military has basically no chance of winning against our military, and the gap in strength between China and the United States will be even smaller as time goes by.
Take the Navy as an example, our army's Type 054B frigate has already started sea trials shortly after its debut, while in contrast, the US Constellation-class frigate will not be delivered to the US Navy until 2026. On the whole, it is an indisputable fact that the gap between China and the United States has narrowed.
Obviously, this will make the United States very worried, so what the United States hopes most is to deliberately create tension and provoke regional contradictions. In this way, the US military will be able to find a reason and excuse for "armed intervention" while it still has an advantage, thus interrupting the mainland's vigorous upward development momentum. This is also the most fundamental reason why the United States has massively increased its troops in East Asia.
However, the United States should not forget that for the United States, which needs to maintain its so-called "global hegemony," any place can be described as "pulling a trigger and moving the whole body." As long as Russia wins in Europe, or Iran and other countries succeed in driving out the US troops stationed in the Middle East, any one of them is "achieved," then there will be a chain reaction. Therefore, if the United States increases its troops in the Western Pacific, there will inevitably be a possibility that it will "be unable to suppress" other places.
End of this issue.