One of the officers leading the assistance is a Marine Corps general who helped lead special operations forces against Islamic State.
| The Pentagon has sent military advisers, including a Marine Corps general versed in urban warfare, to Israel to aid in its war planning and is speeding multiple sophisticated air defence systems to the Middle East days ahead of aOne of the officers leading the assistance is Marine Corps Lieutenant General James Glynn, who previously helped lead special operations forces against the Islamic State and served in Fallujah, Iraq, during some of the most heated urban combat there, according to a US...
The military team is one of many fast-moving pieces the Pentagon is getting in place to try to prevent the already intense conflict between Israel and Hamas from becoming a On Monday, the US military garrison at an-Tanf, Syria, came under attack again, this time by two drones. The drones were shot down, and no injuries were reported. It was the latest episode of more than a half-dozen times in the last week that US military locations in the Middle East had come under rocket or drone attack since a deadly blast at a Gaza hospital.
The shift means that the Navy will have a carrier strike group off the shore of Israel – the Ford carrier strike group – and another, the Eisenhower, potentially manoeuvred to defend US forces and Israel from the Red Sea or the Gulf of Oman.
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