VADM Wikoff, U.S. 5th Fleet Commander, on Red Sea Crisis

Interview with Vice Admiral George M. Wikoff, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces, Central Command/Commander, FIFTH Fleet and Commander, Combined Maritime Forces, during DIMDEX 2024 in Doha, Qatar.
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VADM Wikoff was recently appointed as new 5th Fleet Commander. He first introduces his roles at the head of 5th Fleet, Combined Maritime Forces and Task Force Sentinel.
VADM Wikoff the shares his assesment of the current situation in the Red Sea, cooperation with US partners, including European Union operation ASPIDES.
Lastly he comments on the capability of US sailors and systems to counter the wide array of threats they are facing in the Red Sea.
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[@joostvanwijk3842]

A well spoken man, thank you for the interview.

[@joostvanwijk3842]

The admiral is indeed correct on the overmatch of capabillities, no (navy)vessels have been hit despite many, many complex attacks.

[@StereoSpace]

The Houthis only have to be lucky once. The Western naval forces need to strive to do everything right, every time. Very different set of performance expectations. I'm also proud of all the courageous and service minded young people standing watch, and all the dedicated professionals like the admiral training and overseeing them.

[@spilledfeed]

DIMDEX sounds like a 3rd world crypto exchange. lol

[@SWOBIZ]

Looks like the Houthis are achieving their goal: access denial in the Red Sea. Despite the heroic efforts by our Sailors, the Houthis continue to attack shipping with impunity and most traffic is avoiding the Red Sea.

[@frank-ko6de]

Impunity means they're not being hit or forced to pay for their acts or actions, which is not true. Work on your facts, you sound ridiculous.

[@SWOBIZ]

@@frank-ko6de If the US and EU sought to restore freedom of navigation in the Red Sea/Gulf of Aden, they’ve failed.

[@frank-ko6de]

​@@SWOBIZwell, what you're saying now has nothing at all to do with what you said earlier. The Houthis know better to not attack American assets because they will be dealt with mercilessly, like what happened after the Jordan attacks. Again, that's the opposite of impunity, you ridiculous clueless nonsense.

[@SWOBIZ]

@@frank-ko6de The Houthi strategic goal is anti-access/area denial in the Red Sea. Over 50% of the commercial traffic now diverts around Africa to avoid the Red Sea. Sounds pretty successful to me. Yes, the US conducted aircraft and missile strikes in Yemen; latest one was Feb 24th. Apparently those attacks did not blunt their ability to conduct daily attacks in the Red Sea/Gulf of Aden. US forces are now reduced by the departure of USS EISENHOWER and a destroyer. The trends are bad.

[@frank-ko6de]

@@SWOBIZ You can't even be consistent with your own nonsense rhetoric hence the reason you're running in circles. Their objective is not to stop anyone , but to have them understand the folly of their actions. They US has sufficient power in the red sea that's been filled up by France, Denmark and UK with similar force posture and strike capabilities, but continue with your ridiculous nonsense.

[@LordBuckhouse]

As an American and a former Navy vet I am very concerned about who the DOD and Biden Administration is promoting to the senior ranks of the Navy and to our military in general. Is the Biden Administration promoting war fighters or some pie faced politically correct wokesters into the senior leadership. After the Afghan withdrawal debacle, recruiting disasters and falling standards I’m wondering what the helll is going on. And this guy doesn’t impress me at all. With that smiling pie face Wikoff sounds more like the President of the local Chamber of Commerce than a warfighter to me.

[@Tealice1]

Are you aware of the fact, that senior military leaders are approved by the United States Senate and not by the president? For these to go through the senate needs more than a simple majority, which is why the republicans do get a say in the promotions, despite the democrats holding a small majority (by 2 seats). In fact, over 400 promotions have until recently been held of by a republican senator over an issue not directly related to military matters, namely abortion. This hold up was widely criticized for being a threat to national security, by leaving important positions vacant and keeping older officers from retiring.

[@LordBuckhouse]

@@Tealice1 Are you aware that no SENIOR Admiral will even be nominated if the President doesn’t want him. And the fact that so many promotions were held up only illustrates the problem with this woke US military that seems to think men can get pregnant and that merit is not the top priority for promotion.

[@LordBuckhouse]

@@Tealice1 Are you aware that no senior Admiral will even be nominated now if the Biden Administration does not approve of them. And their politics. And the fact that Republicans held up so many promotions only illustrates the problem of less qualified woke officers being identified and nominated for more seniors positions. Officers who are more sympathetic towards left wing insanity such as equity over merit, trans surgeries, low boot camp standards, critical race theory, recruiting insanity, fatness everywhere, etc.

[@Tealice1]

@@LordBuckhouse No, I was not aware of that, but it's not like the president can choose whomever they like. It's choosing from different naval officers which have all had more or less the same training and scrutiny applied to them. Also interesting that you assume any admiral applicable for promotion is male. The hold up had nothing to do with whatever it is that you presume "illustrates the problem". I don't know why you believe the US military thinks that man can get pregnant and how this is relevant at all. And for merit not being the top priority for promotion, I'm not sure how someone from outside the military can make any confident judgement on that. Also politics have always played a role when it comes to high leadership positions in any military throughout history, I see no reason to be upset about that, but maybe it's just because you don't seem to agree with the person currently in charge of.

[@LordBuckhouse]

@@Tealice1 “maybe it's just because you don't seem to agree with the person currently in charge of” Of course, I don’t. The guy in charge is Biden. He’s the Commander-in-Chief. He’s the same guy who, as VP, pressured the Navy into accepting his 43 year old drug addict son into the Navy as a commissioned officer. Who does that at age 43? Roughly a month later the Navy tossed his drug addict son out of the Navy for doing drugs. So, yes, I don’t trust anything that corrupt and woke meddling fool does with our military. His Afghan debacle ought to make that obvious to all. Along with the military’s worsening recruiting problems under the Biden Administration. A growing crisis that Biden’s woke DOD is totally unable to address. They thought intensifying recruitment for transgenders was going to fix that. LOL !!!! It made recruiting worse with heterosexual white males. The single biggest group in the military. Real smart.