US Military, CIA Weigh Smaller Middle East Footprint After Iran Conflict
Officials are weighing mission-based rotations and fewer permanent sites after Iranian attacks damaged bases and killed 18 American service members.
- In quiet discussions, US military and Central Intelligence Agency officials are weighing plans to reduce personnel and facilities in the Middle East if the Trump administration succeeds in ending the ongoing Iran conflict.
- The recent conflict with Iran exposed critical vulnerabilities in American infrastructure, as repeated drone and missile attacks killed 18 American service members and significantly damaged installations across Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia.
- Pentagon comptroller Jules Jay Hurst III told reporters in April the department is assessing its future posture, with officials privately considering declining to rebuild severely damaged assets to shift defense burdens onto regional partners.
- Officials are considering a shift toward mission-based deployments where personnel and equipment remain in the United States, launching individual missions into the region only as needed rather than maintaining permanent bases.
- This potential restructuring follows 25 years of military intervention since September 11, 2001, marked by repeated cycles of promises to pull back that have often failed to materialize due to ongoing regional threats.
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Representatives of the U.S. military and intelligence community have raised the issue of reducing personnel and facilities in the Middle East in private conversations if Washington succeeds in ending the Iranian conflict, reports on Tuesday CNN with reference to sources. "There have recently been informal discussions in the offices of the military and intelligence communities on reducing the number of people and facilities deployed in the Middle…
In offices of the armed forces and the intelligence community, discreet discussions have been held recently on the possibility of reducing the number of people and facilities that are often destined in the Middle East if the Trump administration...
Military and intelligence officials discuss smaller presence in the Middle East as US looks for another post-9/11 strategy
In offices across the military and in the intelligence community, there have been recent quiet discussions about cutting the number of people and facilities typically stationed in the Middle East if the Trump administration succeeds in ending the Iran conflict, six sources say.
London - Arabic Jerusalem: published a report by Kitty Bo Lilis and Zachary Cohen, in which they said that intelligence and military officials were discussing the military presence in the Middle East, in the light of Iran's war and the 25th anniversary of the September 2001 attacks, as the US looked forward to another post-attack strategy.
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