Trump's Gunboat Diplomacy In Asia May Prove Quite Different From Syria
President Trump has ordered the U.S. Navy to respond to foreign policy crises twice in less than a week, but his options in North Korea are much narrower than in Syria.
President Trump is responding to another tough foreign policy crisis with gunboat diplomacy, but the second deployment likely will look very different from the first.
U.S. Pacific Command has ordered the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and its strike group, which includes a cruiser and two destroyers, to "report on station in the Western Pacific Ocean," instead of sailing for Australia as planned.
The Navy's official announcement about the decision did not mention North Korea, but leaders in Washington hope that leaders in its capital, Pyongyang, will get the picture.
The strike group
