Izvestia: the Mount Whitney ship in the Black Sea can control interethnic forces 
From the geopolitical point of view, the Black Sea coast is “Russia, approaching which the enemy can strike at the largest cities and defense centers of our country, writes military historian Dmitry Boltenkov in Izvestia.
The author assessed the first visit to the Black Sea by an American headquarters ship in the last five years Mount Whitney, together with the destroyer Porter and the tanker John Lenthall.
“Such a ship is equipped with a lot of different types of radio communications, there are rooms for staff workers. In fact, it can be used to control a grouping of diverse front-scale forces of interethnic forces, “the expert noted.
In his opinion,” on the basis of this headquarters ship, a grouping of international forces can be created with the involvement of Ukraine and Georgia, which it will be difficult to refuse assistance to its partners. ”
In November, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili, aboard Mount Whitney, said that the country was ready to help NATO in ensuring security in the Black Sea region.
In the same month, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that two American strategic bombers performed an unscheduled flight over the Black Sea, one hundred kilometers from the country's border.