Senator Chris Murphy questions value of rebuilding US bases in Gulf region
2 Oct 30 · 13d ago · 2 posts · 1 source · development 2 of 2
Democratic Senator and Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Chris Murphy stated that debate is underway in the US military about whether to rebuild damaged bases, asking rhetorically whether bases are worth maintaining if they can be destroyed within 24 hours of conflict onset.
“What good is it to have a base in the region to protect American interests if within 24 hours of a hot war starting, it is wiped off the map?”
Chris MurphyInternational Institute for Strategic Studies Defence research organization
Chris Murphy Democratic Senator, Senate Foreign Relations Committee memberGulf states Regional actors
The whole story articlesposts the bright band is this development · numbered dots are the others · click one to jump
Reported in the same hours no headline names this development itself — these 1 claim were published in its stretch
-
first by Mastodon, 13d ago · also Guardian
What people said 3 voices · verbatim
-
C
"The report says that in the weeks before the 8 April ceasefire, 12 regional states, overwhelmingly in the Gulf, faced 4,670 Iranian one-way attack drones and more than 1,400 ballistic missiles." @theguardian.com
-
C
The US-Iran war highlights an “uncomfortable truth for the Gulf states: not only has their trillion-dollar acquisition of US weapons not translated into US protection at the crucial time, but their respective militaries are also not adequately prepared for the new kind of attritional air war to which they are being exposed. Despite huge investment…
-
E
https://www. europesays.com/3341781/ Gulf states must rethink trillion-dollar defence in light of US-Iran war, says report | Middle East and north Africa # Conflicts # Iran # MiddleEast # MiddleEastCrisis # Tehran
All 2 developments of IISS report: Gulf states must overhaul trillion-dollar… →
NewswiresGoogle NewsMastodonBlueskyReddit