New York Times: US warships face a logistical nightmare and acute supply crisis in the Middle East

A report by the American newspaper “The New York Times” revealed a severe logistical crisis and an unprecedented nightmare facing American warships and naval vessels deployed in the Middle East, due to the targeting of supply networks and the destruction of field bases, imposing a state of extended operational exhaustion that began with the Yemeni deterrence in the Red Sea and reached its peak with the direct confrontation with Iran.

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The report explained that the destruction by Iranian strikes of the vital logistics base for the US Navy in Bahrain since the first day of the war, and the targeting of nearby regional ports, has forced American supply ships to travel vast distances of up to 2,200 miles to the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, or pass through the Strait of Malacca to Singapore at a distance of 3,700 miles, to secure thousands of tons of food supplies and 8 million gallons of fuel weekly for about 20,000 sailors and Marines stationed on aircraft carriers and destroyers.

The report indicated that depriving the US Navy of docking in regional ports and forcing it to resupply at sea every few days constitutes a high security and military risk, coinciding with a structural attrition crisis that Washington is suffering from, having sent 4 out of 11 aircraft carriers it possesses, while being unable to replace stressed vessels or subject them to maintenance.

Observers link this operational predicament to the comprehensive strategic exhaustion that the US fleet was subjected to over months in the Red Sea and off the Yemeni ports; where the operations of the Yemeni Armed Forces in imposing the naval blockade and supporting Gaza toppled the prestige of American deterrence, and exhausted the carrier strike groups, foremost the “USS Abraham Lincoln,” which spent nine continuous months without resting in any port. The US administration finds itself today trapped between the jaws of Yemeni deterrence and Iranian resilience in an unsustainable confrontation.