With Boxer's arrival, July 2 -- ARABIAN SEA - The USS Boxer, a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship carrying the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, arrived in the Middle East on June 30. The following morning, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner flew to Doha. The two events were not coincidental. They were the same strategy expressed through two different instruments.

USS Boxer, USS Portland, and USS Comstock, with the 11th MEU and approximately 2,500 marines. Together they constitute the largest American amphibious force assembled in Gulf waters in decades, positioned alongside both carrier strike groups - USS Abraham Lincoln and USS George H.W. Bush - and 15 destroyers, bringing the total to at least 24 warships. Stars and Stripes reported that...