
Great Green Fleet fighting ISIL in the Persian Gulf
In the Middle East, the US Navy has deployed its Great Green Fleet to support the fight against ISIL, led by the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, a 38-year-old Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. One of Eisenhower’s observations was that oil dependency was a key driver to Hitler’s failure, similar to the dependence ISIL has on petrodollars, so […]