1.   AWACS planes located the bullies as they huddled on a corner for a smoke, and a carrier group sent in Tomahawks to blow them into lunchmeat?

2.   A fourth carrier group left Japan Friday for an undisclosed location.

3.   One regional war would likely require four to five army divisions, five air wings and three carrier groups.

4.   So the war costs are calculated just from the additional expenses of that third carrier group.

5.   Some advisers to Rumsfeld are urging him to cancel or significantly delay CVNX, and to end the policy of keeping a carrier group in the Mediterranean.

6.   That is, it is, we have a certain number of carrier groups, and a certain number of assets to deploy at sea.

7.   The expense of outfitting a carrier group would require China to skew its defense budget toward naval power or divert significant resources from important civilian projects.

8.   The Roosevelt will join two other carrier groups in the Gulf and in the Indian Ocean.

9.   The Pentagon said last month that the fighters would remain in Jordan until mid-June while the U.S. Navy carrier group normally deployed in the Gulf is absent.

10.   The U.K. today sent an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf, joining two U.S. carrier groups already stationed there.