-Part 2- What is the size and nature of the US military equipment deployed in the Arabian Gulf?

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The main forces and combat platforms announced by the US administration are sent to the Gulf region to respond to what it called "Iranian threats to American interests in the region" as follows:

First Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier Strike Group ABECSG (Navy Tracing) consists of:

* The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, the Nimitz Class, is a 105,000-tonne nuclear powered supercharger capable of carrying up to 90 different aircraft (fighter-electronic warfare, early warning and airborne control, ).

* The Carrier Strike Group CSG-12 is composed of:

1) The Guided Missile Cruiser (USS Leyte Gulf) is a 9800-ton cruiser from the Ticonderoga Triconderoga cruiser.

2) Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 2 includes:

- Guided Missile Destroyer "USS Bainbridge" of the Arleigh Burke destroyers, which has a maximum displacement of 9200 tons.

- Missile missile "Mason USS Mason" Arle Berk class.

- USS Nitze guided missile destroyer from the Arle Berk class.

3) The Guided Missile Frigate Spanish heavy-duty ESPS Mendez Nuñez, a highly successful Alvaro de Bazán frigate, with a maximum displacement of 5,800 tons.

Second Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group consists of:

Amphibious Assault Ship "USS Kearsarge" of the "Wasp-Class" aircraft carrying helicopters and combat aircraft with short-launch capability and vertical landing (attack aircraft and support Harriere AV-8B Harrier II or F-35B other than naval attack helicopters Viper AH Viper, MV-22B, and Super-Stallion (CH-53E Super Stallion). It also carries the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, with a maximum clearance of 41,000 tons.

Amphibious Transport Dock "Arlington" USS Arlington "San Antonio-Class" and can carry up to 800 fighters + 14 armored amphibious landing craft, other than the Amphibious Humphreight landing gear, with a maximum displacement of 25 thousand tons.

* The Landing Dock Ship, "Fort McHenry" of the "Whidbey Island" category, and nine of the 504 Marines, as well as the ability to carry 5 modes of Huffcraft Amphibious Amphibious Assault Vehicle AVV .

Third Weapons and Equipment Air Force:

1) Heavy Strategic Bomber Bombers B-52H Stratofortress has been stationed at Qatar Air Base with 4 launchers and is capable of carrying 31.5 tons of bombs in various weights and types including the Paveway laser-guided family or Direct Direct Attack Munitions JDAM Which is aimed at GPS systems, tactical nuclear bombs and long-range ghost rockets.

2) The Air Force Fighter F-15C Eagle arrived in the Gulf from the Lakenheath air base in Britain, each armed with six AIM-120C AMRAAM air-to-air combat missiles and two air-to-air missiles Proximity and combat model "Sidewinder AIM-9X Sidewinder" guided by the pilot helmet sensors as soon as the target is seen.

3) F-35A Lightning II fighter jets are based at Al Dhafra Air Base in the UAE with 4 fighter jets since mid-April.

Fourth The US military announced that it had sent a Patriot PAC-3 battery to air, anti-aircraft and ballistic missiles to the Gulf region. The US Army has also completed the deployment and integration of a THAAD battery for defense against ballistic missiles outside the atmosphere in the Negev desert in the occupied territories in the period March - April 2019. It was merged with its Israeli counterpart Arrow, American crews.

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* Attached pictures to identify the most important weapons mentioned in the publication ,,

A comprehensive study is under way on the scenarios of the possible American-Iranian military confrontation in all its military, political and economic dimensions and will be published soon,
(article from : Egypt defense portal ) page on facebook

USA / IRAN crisis -part 1-

Before we start talking about the issue between Iran and US we need to know how much naval power the US has and how they are separated ;

The United States has 7 naval fleets and 10 unified combat commands worldwide,

First Fleets are as follows:

1- Fleet II, headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia. He was suspended in 2011, then re-activated to be responsible for patrol and operations in the North Atlantic and the eastern coast of the United States, in light of the recent developments between Russia and NATO in recent years.

2. The 3rd Fleet, headquartered in San Diego, California, is responsible for the eastern and northern Pacific and the US West Coast to Alaska in the north.

3rd Fleet, headquartered in Mayport, Florida, with responsibility for the southern Atlantic, the Caribbean and all of Central America and South America.

4- Fifth Fleet, headquartered in Manama, Bahrain. Its responsibility includes the Arabian Gulf, parts of the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea and the Red Sea.

5. The 6th Fleet, based in Naples, Italy, with responsibility for the Mediterranean, Europe and Africa.

The 7th Fleet is based in Yokosuka, Japan, and includes the West and North Pacific, the Indian Ocean, South and South East and East Asia (the Indo-Pacific region).

The 10th Fleet, based in Fort Meade, Marlyland, is not a naval fleet in the literal sense; it is the power provider of the US Navy Fleet Command. Fleet Cyber ​​Command, which is responsible for the Navy's cyber warfare program, coordinates with the rest of the Navy, Coalition Forces and Joint Task Forces to carry out all information, cyber and e-war missions, intelligence capabilities and tasks across electronic, electromagnetic and space domains. The 10th Fleet and the Marine Command of the Navy Fleets are one of two operational components of the US Information Warfare Corps. Navy Information Corps, where the second component is called the US Naval Information Forces.

* Fleets: I, VIII, IX, XI, and XII are all not in service.

Second Unified Combatant Command (UCC) The Pentagon follows the Pentagon and is created to provide an effective command and control capability for US forces, whatever their competence in peace and war, organized either on a geographical basis (also known as the Area of ​​Responsibility AOR) Or functional, such as Special Operations, Power Projection, or Transport. Each command has its own logo to define its jurisdiction and areas of operation.

Each command is headed by a Combatant Commander, symbolized by the CCDR, a four-star general or Admiral, a rank in the US Army that is the same rank as the Egyptian army's top brass. Each commander commands his orders according to the chain of command of the US President, through the Minister of Defense.

The unified leaders are divided into 10:

1. Northern Command, USNORTHCOM, headquartered at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado, and responsible for US military activities in the United States, Canada, Alaska, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas, From US territory against any potential invasion.

2. Southern Command, USSOUTHCOM, headquartered in Doral, Florida, is responsible for the activities and missions of the US military in Central America, South America and the Caribbean, as well as for the defense of the Panama Canal and the surrounding area .

3. The European Command is a USEUCOM, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, responsible for the activities and operations of the US military in Europe, Russia, Greenland and Israel. Its commander is also serving as Allied Command Operations, responsible for the operations of NATO forces worldwide, and the title of "Supreme Allied Commander Europe SACEUR". The Incirlik air base in Turkey is one of the most important bases used by the NATO and US forces of the European Command, which was the headquarters of the forces participating in the Gulf War in 1991, and the Northern Northern Command Operation Northern Air Force, January 1997 - March 2003 ".

The United States Central Command is a USCENTCOM headquartered in Tampa, Florida, and is responsible for the activities and operations of the US military in the Middle East and Central Asia, and military relations with all countries in the region, including Egypt , The only African country that falls under the jurisdiction of the Central Command, while Israel follows the European leadership. The Central Command is located at the Al-Aideed base in Qatar. It also uses other rules in Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

5 - African Command United States Africa Command and symbolized by USAFRICOM, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, which is responsible for the activities and operations of the US Army in Africa and US military relations with all African countries, except Egypt, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Central Command. African leadership has an advanced base in the Horn of Africa called "Camp Lemonnier" in the State of Djibouti, the headquarters of the Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) of the African Command.

6. Indo-Pacific Command, United States Indo-Pacific Command, headquartered in Hawaii, is the largest and largest command center in the United States. Its area of ​​responsibility lies in the Pacific and Indian Pacific, from the West Coast to the West Indian Coast, The North Pole and even the Antarctic region, on an area of ​​260 million km² equivalent to 52% of the globe. It is supported by service components, and unified command structures, such as the US Army Command in the Pacific Ocean. Army Pacific, US Pacific Fleet. Pacific Fleet, US Pacific Air Forces Pacific Air Forces, US Pacific Marine Corps. Marine Forces Pacific, US Forces in Japan Forces Japan, US Forces in South Korea Forces Korea, Special Operations Command Korea, and Special Operations Command Pacific.

7. Cyber ​​Command, USCYBERCOM, headquartered at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, is responsible for planning, coordinating, integrating, synchronizing, managing operations and defending the Department of Defense's information networks, The implementation of a full range of military operations in cyberspace, to allow the implementation of various actions on all ranges, to ensure freedom of action for US forces and allied forces in cyberspace, and to deprive enemies of carrying out the above tasks.

8. United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), headquartered in MacDill, Tampa, Florida, and is responsible for overseeing all operations commands of the Army, Aviation, Navy, and Marine Corps in the US Armed Forces.

9 - Strategic Command United States Strategic Command, symbolized by USSTRATCOM, headquartered at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, USA, responsible for Strategic Deterrence, and Global Strike strikes against any target worldwide using ballistic missiles (Using conventional or nuclear warheads), and the operation of the Global Information Grid Gig (GIS), a network of information capabilities to collect, process, store, deploy and manage information, at the request of combat units, Political R, and support staff. It is also equipped to support other combat leaders, including Strategic Alert, Integrated Missile Defense (Ballistic Missile Defense System), Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Survey, and Global Command, Command, Control, Communications, Computers , Intelligence, Surveillance, & Reconnaissance C4ISR.

10. The United States Transportation Command, symbolized by USTRANSCOM, is headquartered in Scott, Illinois, and is responsible for the military, military, and naval transport capabilities of the US military worldwide. It has a full fleet of tactical and strategic military transport aircraft, air refueling aircraft, government and commercial transport vessels, logistics vessels, train and container vehicles with 1,350 vehicles and 10,000 containers.
 (article from :Egypt defense portal )page on facebook 

China ..USA Trade War ! -part1-

-Cold War- was a strange term to the ears of people in the 80s , now we have that term -Trade War -.
None denies that China is a big country -we mean very big -with a huge number of population and a relatively huge number of working hands that push the Chinese economy forward .

China greatly expanded recently in many areas of the world through its growing economy this made usa worries about the Chinese role -it may take US role as the number one country in the world- that made us hear that term -Trade war- ,it recently came to live in the era of Barack Obama -the previous president of US - and it escalated in Donald Trump's period who wanted to deal with the Chinese economical expansion firmly ,unlike Obama ,who was just dodging around it, so Trump made some of the strict measures to control and suppress the Chinese expansion :
warren buffett on trade war," trade war between the United States and China would be "bad for the whole world." Buffett spoke after US President Donald Trump who tweeted on Sunday that he will raise tariffs on $US200 billion ($286 billion) of Chinese imports to 25 per cent from 10 per cent

   that move which got praised from American Business Community,though that move didn't only affect the Chinese exports to US but also many international companies -who have been hit hard by that move-like car makers ,and steel exporters to America ,

Donald Trump didn't get satisfied by that only he usually accuses China of backtracking on commitments in trade talks .........so what is the Chinese pay back or at least reply ...(to be continued )in after parts

What is going on in Sudan ! -part 3-

It was out of no where, when Sudanese youth decided to put an end to  

that dictator who has been keeping their country back for about 3 decades ,they saw that Al-Bashir didn't do any improvement in their country for decades added to that he was never democratic -he only wanted the absolute power for himself alone- so they decided if he wont leave the chair for a fresh blood they will to take him out by themselves and they did ,as in December 19 2018 they rushed into streets after a raise in bread prices ,at first Sudanese police used violence to suppress the protesters ,but it didn't work ,Al-Bashir found himself in a tight situation especially he got no help from his old friends (saudi arabia &united arab emirates)  that used to fund

His economy,it was just a matter of time, 

Al-Bashir tried to go for help from Qatar but a tiny country like Qatar -even if it was rich- it wont help such a big one -relatively- like Sudan.

protesters in Khartoum ,Om-Derman and Obbayed remained in streets against the violent troops of Al-Bashir till April 11 2019 when some leaders from the Sudanese army -who have been said to be supported from egyptian, suadi and emirates intelligent services-  decided to turn against Al-Bashir and take him out

 ,thought protesters remained in streets till the moment as they are afraid from the play back of the egyptian situation in 2013 when Egyptian army took Muslim Brother Hood out of power and controlled the country till the moment , so Sudanese protesters still asking for a civilian leader for their country and they are suspicious that the military leaders are postponing the delivery of the power to civilians as they maybe want to take over the chair for themselves ,so many negotiations have been held and they are still negotiating with the military leaders to handle the power to them till the moment ,

- yes ,that means they still out there in the streets .

What is going on in Sudan ! -part 2-

.....After al-bashir relationship with Egypt ,Saudi Arabia and UAE was weak after 2013 ,he made it worse by increasing cooperation with three countries regional enemies -Qatar and turkey-

turkish president visits Sudan in December 2017

         In December 24 2017 Erdogan -the turkish president - paid an important visit to Sudan and agreement was about to be reached that Turkey would hire a Sudanese island on red sea (southern gate to Egypt) that visit between the two guys made Egypt thinks that AL-Bashir was a clear enemy that puts Egypt to risks ,it explains why Egyptian president -Al SISI- hurried to make strategic deals with Sudan as plenty of deals were made to support Sudan with egyptian electricity and also to extend a rail way from Cairo to Khartoum in account to that Sudan wont give the island to Turkey and that exactly what happened as Turkey never got the island ,and it explains more why neither Egypt nor SA nor UAE provide help to al-bashir from the start of the Sudanese revolution till the take down of the dictator .......(to be continued in after parts)

https://whorules2020.blogspot.com/search/label/Sudanese%20revolution (link of part 1)

What is going on in Sudan ! -part 1-

   Omar Hassan Ahmad Al-Bashir known as Omar al-bashir ,the man who was a key role in Sudan since 1989 till 2019 ;he came to power after suspicious military events and remained president for Sudan till revolution in February 2019 when young men who dreamed of a better Sudan -democratic one- 

 In March 2009, al-Bashir became the first sitting president to be indicted by the International Criminal Court  (ICC), for allegedly directing a campaign of mass killing, rape, and pillage against civilians in Darfur.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_al-Bashir   (this is a link to his early and family life and important stops in his career aswell in Wikipedia)

 In October 2005, al-Bashir's government negotiated an end to the Second Sudanese civil War leading to a referendum in the South, resulting in the separation of the south as the country of South Sudan . In the Darfur region, he oversaw the war in darfur that has resulted in death tolls that are about 10,000 according to the Sudanese Government, but most sources suggest between 200,000  and 400,000. During his presidency.

From that ,we know we are in front of a man who would kill and sell lands to remain in power ,we were told that he ruled Sudan by Initiative strategies as he was counting on Tribes that their leaders were close friends of him ,but for sure he didn't expect that his knock out would be by the youth who were angry about how worse  Sudan came to economically especially that there was no Democracy even and the neighboring Gulf countries have remarkable economical improvements

relatively , things remained steady for about 30 years till they exploded in late 2018 & 2019 .

what it made it worse that he took an opposite side from his -close friends- in his last years ,and i mean by his close friends Saudi Arabia and UAE who were a good supporters for Sudan's economy for years ,also he went into troubles with his northern neighbor Egypt by co-operating with Qatar and Turkey who were clear oppositions to Egypt and also to Saudis and Emirates ,especially after 2013 when Muslim Brother Hood  were taken down from power by the Egyptian army -Muslim Brother Hood- are a close friend to Erdogan -the turkish president  also Omar Al-Bashir was said to have close ties with them ,so the guy lost two of his close and big funders.......... (to be continued in after parts)

What is going on in Libya?! -Tripoli war!- Haftar attack on Tripoli!

Libyan situation has been complicated for years till now , but recently it escalated ,so what on earth is going on there !
to better understand situation in Libya we should know who are the key players in there !
            1-"khalifa haftar"(Libyan army general) , the guy was an officer in "Gaddafi" army ,he was sent to Chad to fight for "Gaddafi" ,after that he was captured there for many years till CIA released him from capture and kept him in united states (for unknown reason till recently) and soon the 2011 uprisings in Arab World reached Libya then we surprisingly saw Khalifa back to stage in Libya ,He was fighting against"Gaddafi",

 (as a revenge for letting him back without help in Chad -you can say-  after "Gaddafi" was down Khalifa was controlling some small cities with his militia in eastern Libya where were oil to fund his street wars ,
 Mean while in Egypt after Muslim Brother Hood were taken down by the army there ,Islamic groups in Libya hurried for help and caused disturbances in Egypt , Cairo had no choice but to cooperate was Hafter and increase his power to better control the borders with Egypt ,Hafter power rose markedly and his militia converted into a small army -the biggest in Libya- he took over whole eastern Libyan side but not the capital tripoli ;
...........mean while in tripoli UN has decided that 2-"fayez al-sarraj" would be the elected president of Libya and soon after the parliament was also elected - Islamic groups were in between them and had their own militias also in tripoli and thoughts were rushed that they control there even they control Fayez himself -
Egypt was supporting Haftar    -the man who was protecting its borders- with few machine guns ,armored vehicles, ammo and few air strikes and where  Egypt goes Saudi Arabia and UAE go (as they have -close understanding- of the situation in the area of middle east ,while Qatar was supporting the militias tripoli and where Qatar goes Turkey goes ,During whole these events ,European union didn't care but for the middle and south African immigrants who were taking advantage of loose Libyan borders  as a passage to Europe .
That situation held like that for nearly 3 years till April  2019  when Khalifa's power rose markedly and cooperated with a strong man in western Libya with the help of Egyptian intelligent service and decided to take over Tripoli .
situation in there now :
all proofs say that Hafter will take over Tripoli sooner or later (he has the strongest army ,air strikes and secret services help from Egypt ,lots of money from Saudi Arabia and UAE and even Russian and American approve on his military action ) he is surrounding Tripoli from east and south while his guy is surrounding it from west ,street wars are going on there right now he is making advances in there  while the counter militias are doing hopeless maneuvers by attacking facilities that have fallen in hands of Hafter then withdraw from them .
Neither Qatar nor Turkey can help their militias from the sea since Egypt is there with its fleet ,
at the start of the fights over tripoli Qatar foreign minister held meeting in Italy playing on the line of the immigrants who gonna leak to it during the fights hoping that Italy would interfere ,few days ago -during Belt and Road initiative in Beijing China- Italian prime minister met with the president of Egypt -El-Sisi- to discuss that situation .
My personal expectation that Hafter will take over tripoli in the next few months.