Terms of Service and Privacy PolicyThe pace of U.S. military aircraft movements to the Middle East is picking up. You can catch up with our most recent coverage of tensions in the Middle East in our story here. The same F-35s involved in the U.S. mission to capture Venezuelan President Maduro arrived in Lajes on their way to the Middle East this evening. That being said, the movement would fit the same pattern we have seen of the influx of capabilities into the Middle East. As we pointed out, “Growlers in the Middle East would be critical force multipliers.