Iranian strikes on US military bases in the Gulf states exposes alliance limits, legal dilemmas and heightened risks for host nations.
The Arab states allowed US military bases on their territories to keep comparatively powerful states such as Iran and Israel at bay. Department of Defense. American Forces Information Service, Wikimedia Commons.
Iranian strikes on US military bases in the Gulf states exposes alliance limits, legal dilemmas and heightened risks for host nations.
In what is being described as a “serious blow to US surveillance capabilities” in the troubled Gulf region, the destruction of an American airborne warning and control system aircraft at the Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, in an Iranian missile attack on March 27, does not portend well for the world’s most powerful military power.
In the early days of the ongoing Iran-US-Israel war, Iranian missiles destroyed an expensive state-of-the-art radar system at an American air base in Jordan.
