That’s a good reason for Israel to store its munitions in Israel. Doesn’t explain why the U.S. should store munitions in Israel.
When we store our supplies around the world we need a secure place to do it, for example, Norway, Israel, Japan, Qatar Germany, etc.
“Sets of
equipment, such as all the tanks and wheeled vehicles of an armored brigade
combat team, are strategically prepositioned in climate controlled facilities
worldwide. This reduces deployment response times by allowing Soldiers to fly
to a theater and fall in directly on all the equipment they need to fight and win.
These stocks—identified as APS-1 (United States), APS-2 (Europe), APS-3 (Afloat), APS-4
(Northeast Asia), and APS-5 (Southwest Asia)—are available to support all combatant commanders’
missions, not only in contingencies, but also major exercises and humanitarian missions.”
Here is a description from 1998, there have been a lot of changes since then, most of these mention the Army but all the services maintain these storage centers where they need them.
“The Army prepositions three sets in Europe. The other four
sets are prepositioned in Kuwait, Korea, Qatar, and aboard a fleet of ships.
Other Army prepositioning efforts include operational projects and sustainment stocks stored ashore worldwide and on ships.
Cause the US is WHEREVER there is War...or possibility of...
I think it does. Given the high probability that terrorists will attack Israel at some point and that Israel will need our support, it's better to have the munitions in place already.
It would take weeks to load up an armored Division and ship it some place where it’s needed. Weeks. These things have to be loaded on ships. As massive as our air transport system is it cannot move that amount of gear. We need to preposition gear overseas to stand a chance of getting it where it’s needed in any sort of decent time frame