Story by Ryan Chan
黃油油的閑話
油油膩膩的二話
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寫了是人家的後院，但還是要填滿力量哈！不過呢，有點力不從心了，因為航母不夠用了。
就說羅斯福號在拚命趕往中東，不再在南海溜了。為啥？為了接替在紅海附近跟胡塞拖鞋軍英勇戰鬥了多日，回應了胡塞拖鞋軍多次打擊，據稱是經受了二戰以來最大考驗的艾森豪威爾號。艾森豪威爾號去哪了？回家了，一路高歌！
然後就是常駐日本的裏根號，也唱著個回家了。所以西太平洋就要有一段時間空窗期了，因為接替裏根號的喬治·華盛頓號，還要有一段時間才能過來哈。
心焦麽？怎麽可能。空城計是中國人先唱的哈，我正在城樓，觀山頂……
《新聞周刊》
航母撤離亞洲 美國麵臨中國後院海上力量差距
美國航空母艦西奧多·羅斯福號及其護航艦正從亞洲駛往中東，在西太平洋地區留下了罕見的航母空白，美國希望在此製衡中國不斷擴大的軍事足跡。
羅斯福號最近與美國的條約盟友日本和韓國一起參加了“自由邊緣”演習，這讓金正恩領導的朝鮮非常惱火。6 月 27 日至 29 日的東海演習是該艦一段時間以來在該地區進行的最後一次演習。
歐洲航天局的哨兵-2A地球觀測衛星周三拍攝的航拍圖像顯示，尼米茲級超級航母正通過呂宋海峽駛入南海，呂宋海峽是一條連接有爭議的貿易水域和菲律賓海的戰略水道。
位於北京的 SCSPI 智庫跟蹤了它的動向，創造了美國航母戰鬥群與中國自己的航空母艦率領的海軍編隊共享海域的罕見例子。
五角大樓公布的圖像顯示，羅斯福號最後一次出現在南海是在6月13日。該艦於1月從聖地亞哥出發，部署期間主要在西太平洋巡邏。
6月22日，美國軍方宣布，艾森豪威爾號航空母艦在應對胡塞武裝多次襲擊後，已離開紅海返回本土。
羅斯福號航母打擊群將取代其在美國中央司令部責任區的存在，該責任區涵蓋中東以及北非和中亞部分地區。 隨著羅斯福號離開印度太平洋地區，其姊妹艦羅納德·裏根號也不再位於西太平洋，該區域屬於美國第七艦隊的責任區。
美國海軍研究所運營的 USNI News 周一報道稱，裏根號正在太平洋中部美國第三艦隊的作戰區域內航行，此前，該號於 5 月最後一次離開日本橫須賀的美國海軍基地。
今年夏天，裏根號計劃在加利福尼亞與尼米茲級喬治·華盛頓號航空母艦進行航母交換。華盛頓號目前正在南美洲西海岸附近海域作業，將接替其成為日本唯一一艘前沿部署的航空母艦。
然而，在華盛頓號抵達第七艦隊總部之前，美國航空母艦將無法支援西太平洋的危機或應對突發事件，這是五角大樓的既定優先事項。
“我們對我們目前在該地區的軍事態勢和行動充滿信心，相信我們能夠確保和平與穩定，並履行我們的國家安全承諾，”美國國務院發言人在 5 月回答相關詢問時告訴《新聞周刊》。
據美國海軍學會新聞報道，羅斯福號將一直駐紮在紅海，直到其駐紮在美國東海岸的姊妹艦哈裏·S·杜魯門號於今年夏天晚些時候部署。
羅斯福號短暫返回南海之際，中國海軍在北京控製的西沙群島附近進行了一次罕見的“雙航母”演習。
哨兵-2A 衛星周二拍攝的圖像顯示，中國航空母艦山東艦和一艘 075 型直升機航母與至少六艘其他軍艦一起在有爭議的永興島東北約 50 英裏處編隊航行。
中國海事局周三對該國南部海南省東部和西部的軍事演習發出了兩次航行警告。公告稱，兩個危險區域將持續到 7 月 10 日，山東艦打擊群有可能進行演習。
記者未能聯係到中國國防部置評。
U.S. Faces Sea Power Gap in China's Backyard As Carriers Leave Asia
The U.S. aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and its escorts are racing from Asia to the Middle East, leaving a rare carrier gap in the Western Pacific region where it hopes to counter China's expanding military footprint.
The Roosevelt recently participated in the Freedom Edge exercise alongside U.S. treaty allies Japan and South Korea, much to the chagrin of Kim Jong Un's North. The East China Sea drills from June 27-29 were its final maneuvers in the region for some time.
Aerial imagery captured on Wednesday by the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2A Earth observation satellite showed the Nimitz-class supercarrier steaming into the South China Sea via the Luzon Strait, a strategic waterway linking the contested trade waters to the Philippine Sea.
Its movements were tracked by the Beijing-based SCSPI think tank, creating a rare instance of an American carrier group sharing maritime space with a naval formulation led by one of China's own aircraft carriers.
Images released by the Pentagon showed the Roosevelt was last in the South China Sea on June 13. The ship departed San Diego in January and mostly patrolled the Western Pacific during its deployment.
On June 22, the U.S. military announced that the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, after responding to multiple Houthi attacks, had departed the Red Sea and was returning home.
Its presence in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, which covers the Middle East as well as parts of North Africa and Central Asia, would be replaced by the Roosevelt carrier strike group.
With the Roosevelt leaving the Indo-Pacific region, its sister ship the USS Ronald Reagan also is no longer in the Western Pacific, part of the U.S. Seventh Fleet's area of responsibility.
USNI News, run by the U.S. Naval Institute, reported on Monday that the Reagan was underway in the U.S. Third Fleet's area of operations in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, having previously departed the U.S. naval base in Yokosuka, Japan, for the last time in May.
This summer, the Reagan is scheduled to conduct a carrier swap in California with the Nimitz-class USS George Washington. The Washington, which is currently operating in waters off the western coast of South America, will take over as the only forward-deployed aircraft carrier in Japan.
Before the Washington arrives at the Seventh Fleet headquarters, however, no American aircraft carrier will be available to support crises or respond to contingencies in the Western Pacific, a stated priority at the Pentagon.
"We are confident in our current force posture and operations in the region to ensure peace and stability and to meet our national security commitments," a U.S. State Department spokesperson told Newsweek in May in response to a related query.
The Roosevelt will stay on station in the Red Sea until its U.S. East Coast-based sister ship the USS Harry S. Truman deploys later this summer, according to USNI News.
The Roosevelt's brief return to the South China Sea comes as the Chinese navy conducts a rare "twin carrier" exercise near the Beijing-controlled Paracel Islands.
Sentinel-2A imagery captured on Tuesday showed the Chinese aircraft carrier Shandong and one Type 075 helicopter carrier sailing in formation with at least six other warships about 50 miles northeast of the disputed Woody Island, known as Yongxing in Chinese.
China's Maritime Safety Administration on Wednesday issued two navigation warnings for military exercises east and west of the country's southern Hainan province. Both danger zones will last through July 10, according to the announcement, leaving open the possibility of maneuvers involving the Shandong strike group.
The Chinese Defense Ministry could not be reached for comment.
U.S. Faces Sea Power Gap in China's Backyard As Carriers Leave Asia (msn.com)
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