Getting their ships together: America in the Caribbean

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  The Economist.

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  But first, this morning, the USS Gerald R.

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  Ford, the biggest aircraft carrier in the world,

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  slipped out of the Mediterranean and set a course for the Caribbean.

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  It'll join by now, I guess you'd call it.

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  A flotilla of other American naval hardware in the region.

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  Destroyers and cruisers and amphibious transmissions dock ships.

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  All this while,

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