Our Awful Situation

« Oil prices: $200 a barrel or $70 a barrel?
Survey Shows US Honey Bee Deaths Increased Over Last Year »

US Navy resurrects Fourth Fleet to police Latin America

Posted by Charlie Kilo on May 7th, 2008

If we’re going to police the world then we better police the whole world:

Washington announced at the end of last month that it is resurrecting the long-ago moth-balled Fourth Fleet to reassert US power in the Caribbean and Latin America. Created at the time of World War II to combat German submarines attacking merchant shipping convoys in the South Atlantic, the Fourth Fleet was seen as no longer necessary after the Second World War and was disbanded in 1950.

The Pentagon’s a statement on the revival of the fleet gave a far vaguer indication of its new duties, saying it would “conduct varying missions including a range of contingency operations, counter narco-terrorism, and theater security cooperation activities.”

“Rear Admiral James Stevenson, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command, said the re-establishment of the Fourth Fleet will send a message to the entire region, not just Venezuela,” AHN news reported.

Comments

{ }

Search

Recent Posts

Sites of Interest

Archives

Categories