# The toll of stretching US aircraft carriers thin for the Iran war

https://mins.news/en/video/36221

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-08-28 22:30 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNa179d1qAM

> The US has expanded its military presence in the Middle East to support the war with Iran, with about 50,000 troops in the region. Two of its three currently available aircraft carriers have been pulled from the Pacific; the USS George Washington has joined the USS George H.W. Bush in the Arabian Sea, leaving no US carrier available in the Pacific.

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