United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Israel and US forces in joint military exercise: The
US Navy Central Command (NAVCENT) announced today (Thursday) that it began last Wednesday in an exercise in multilateral naval security operations in the Red Sea with the regional partners, according to a statement Of the U.S.
Navy.The exercise, which will run for five days, includes training at sea aboard the amphibious cargo ship Portland and will focus on visiting, boarding, searching and capture tactics.Training will increase interoperability between the naval teams of the participating forces.
"It's exciting to see U.S. forces training with regional partners to improve our collective maritime security capabilities," said Lt. Brad Cooper, commander of the U.S. Navy. The regional "so he says.
The area of activity of the Fifth Fleet encompasses nearly 2.5 million square miles of territory that includes the Arabian Gulf, the Gulf of Oman, the Red Sea, parts of the Indian Ocean and three critical choking points in the Strait of Hormuz, and the Suez Canal.
Strait of Bab al-Mandab.
This is the first naval exercise publicly announced between the United States, Israel and the two Gulf states, both of which normalized diplomatic relations with Israel last year under the Abrahamic Accords.