“Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the USS Georgia guided missile submarine to the Middle East and told the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group to speed up its voyage to the area, as Israel braces for possible retaliation over the deaths of a senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut and a Hamas leader in Tehran,” the Washington Post reports.
New York Times: “The Pentagon rarely announces the movements of its submarine fleet, underscoring the seriousness of the regional crisis.”
