{"id":324682,"date":"2026-03-14T06:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=324682"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:10:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:10:58","slug":"pentagon-sends-uss-tripoli-and-marines-to-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=324682","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon sends USS Tripoli and Marines to Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"

Investing.com \u2013 March 13, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The Pentagon is deploying the USS Tripoli (pictured above), a Marine Amphibious Ready Group, and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit to the Middle East, a U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News on Friday.<\/p>\n

The Tripoli, stationed out of Japan, will take about two weeks to reach the Middle East. The deployment includes around 2,500 U.S. Marines accompanying the ARG and MEU.<\/p>\n

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth approved a request from U.S. Central Command for an element of an amphibious ready group and attached Marine expeditionary unit, according to three U.S. officials who spoke to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the deployment. Such units typically consist of several warships and 5,000 Marines and sailors.<\/p>\n

The Japan-based USS Tripoli and its attached Marines are now headed for the Middle East, two of the officials told the Wall Street Journal. Marines are already in the Middle East supporting the Iran operation, the officials said.<\/p>\n

The deployment follows Iran\u2019s attacks on the Strait of Hormuz, which have paralyzed traffic through the strategic waterway. The attacks have disrupted the global economy and driven up gas prices, posing a military and political challenge for President Trump.<\/p>\n

Source\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Comment \u2013 March 13, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Is Washington trying to intimidate Iran with the prospect of a amphibious landing somewhere on its coastline? If so it won\u2019t work.<\/p>\n

To make a meaningful Marine landing on Iran\u2019s coast the U.S. would need to deploy a force substantially bigger than that currently aboard the USS Tripoli.<\/p>\n

As of December 2024, there were approximately 168,527 active-duty personnel in the United States Marine Corps. To make a successful amphibious assault on Iran would require a force ten to twenty times the current size of the entire US Marine Corps. So this is not really a viable option. Ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If they are planning to make an amphibious assault on the Iranian coast the 2,500 Marines aboard the USS Tripoli won\u2019t be nearly enough. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":324684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324682"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324686,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324682\/revisions\/324686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/324684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}