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Pentagon Lays Out 4 Military Objectives For Middle East Amid Force Build-Up
The Libertarian Institute ^ | 11/10/2023 | Kyle Anzalone

Posted on 11/10/2023 5:27:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind

A Department of Defense spokesman explained Washington’s current goals in the Middle East. Since Israel launched a massive military operation in Gaza, the US has deployed thousands of troops and a large host of naval ships to the region.

According to a press release outlining Gen. Pat Ryder’s statement, the Pentagon’s four priorities for the Middle East currently are:

  1. “Protection of US forces and citizens in the region.”

  2. “Flow of critical security assistance to Israel as it defends against further Hamas terrorist attacks.”

  3. “Coordination with the Israelis to help secure the release of hostages held by Hamas, to include American citizens.”

  4. “Strengthening of force posture across the region to deter any state or nonstate actors from escalating the crisis beyond Gaza.”

On October 7, Hamas launched an attack in southern Israel that killed over 1,000 people. Israel responded with a massive bombing campaign that killed 10,000 civilians, including 4,000 children, in the past month.

President Joe Biden has traveled to Israel, and the White House has offered full-throated support for Tel Aviv’s military operation in Gaza. While American officials have admitted that the Israeli operations have killed many thousands of civilians, the White House refused to call for a cease-fire or condition American weapons transfers to Israel on reducing civilian casualties.

US forces in the region have come under attacks from local military groups that view Washington’s support for Tel Aviv as crucial to Israel’s military operations in Gaza. Over the past month, various groups have conducted 38 attacks on American soldiers, injuring at least 45 troops.

In response to the attacks on US soldiers, the Pentagon has deployed more military assets to the region, including thousands of troops, two aircraft carrier strike groups, and a nuclear-powered submarine.

Additionally, on Wednesday, US Central Command announced it had conducted two show of force operations with B1-B Lancer bombers in three days. “For the second time in three days, a US B-1 Lancer conducted a mission over the Middle East area of responsibility. US F-16s escorted the bomber,” CENTCOM posted on X.

The leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, threatened to attack the American ships in the region if a more expansive war broke out. “Since the outbreak of the war, the US has threatened to bomb us in Lebanon from its military ships in the Mediterranean. We are prepared for whatever scenario,” he said in a speech last week. “If an all-out war breaks out, you Americans will pay with your ships, your aircraft, and your soldiers.”

While the Biden administration has sought to secure the release of American citizens who are held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, Tel Aviv has rejected pauses in the fighting to facilitate prisoner swap negotiations.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Iran; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: donatefreerepublic; iran; middleeast; military; pentagon
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1 posted on 11/10/2023 5:27:54 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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2 posted on 11/10/2023 5:33:47 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: SeekAndFind
Let me clarify the real Top Two Military Objectives:

1. Place orders for hundreds of billions of materiel from Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, L3Harris, BAE Systems and HII (Newport News Shipbuilding, Ingalls Shipbuilding and Mission Technologies).

2. Land cushy exec jobs worth millions per year after leaving Pentagon. Preferably land multiple board seats.

3 posted on 11/10/2023 5:34:35 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: SeekAndFind

This war will realign the Mid-East with South, Southeast and East Asia.

It was already happening. Those areas need the energy supplies from the Mid-East, and can provide the Mid-East with the goods and services they need.

Europe becomes even more energy poor. The US becomes their irrelevant.

So we may as well shrink our footprint their and reduce our military exposure to match our shrunken diplomatic position.


4 posted on 11/10/2023 5:40:11 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Bullsqueeze.


5 posted on 11/10/2023 5:41:57 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

I haven’t seen any reasonable figures for the number of Hamas and Israeli combatants killed. They must be rising.


6 posted on 11/10/2023 5:42:13 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: SeekAndFind

Hold up on that aid package, gentlemen. Can’t I go back two months and find the same unequivocal guarantees of support, come hell or high water, for Zelensky? Which guarantee is a lie? Can’t do both.


7 posted on 11/10/2023 5:44:03 PM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tactical nukes?


8 posted on 11/10/2023 5:46:34 PM PST by SrgMcLeod999 (Nam is back now, grateful to all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas fer that.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Blinken's "unwavering" support for Israel just wavered, but DOD does what it wants and ships huge amounts of materiel to Israel.

Each agency is pursuing its own foreign policy, which is what happens when we have no real President but only a senile sock-puppet pretending to be President.

9 posted on 11/10/2023 5:50:18 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: SeekAndFind

If Israel can’t handle Hamas alone, then they’re just buying time until destruction.


10 posted on 11/10/2023 5:50:42 PM PST by EEGator
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To: hardspunned

Well just to play devils advocate here, it is all fiat money anyways.
At least the Israelis have actual US Navy moving nearby. Read as : anything for more oil money.


11 posted on 11/10/2023 5:51:19 PM PST by SrgMcLeod999 (Nam is back now, grateful to all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas fer that.)
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To: FarCenter

The US becomes their irrelevant.

So we may as well shrink our footprint their and reduce our military exposure to match our shrunken diplomatic position.

Israel Must Remember, “That America Has Not Won a Serious War in 80+ Years!”

So, why take any military advice from our military leaders?

https://spectator.org/israel-must-remember-that-america-has-not-won-a-serious-war-in-80-years/

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4195949/posts?page=9#9


12 posted on 11/10/2023 5:53:56 PM PST by Grampa Dave (Flu vaccines, might work, if you've never had that flu! Otherwise, they don't do any good/nor work!!)
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To: sauropod

Any update on the 40 babies beheaded?


13 posted on 11/10/2023 5:55:04 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

You off your meds again?


14 posted on 11/10/2023 5:57:43 PM PST by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: Grampa Dave

As the article points out, we won in Grenada.

Somehow, they forgot Panama.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Panama


15 posted on 11/10/2023 5:57:58 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: SrgMcLeod999

For Israel

In 1967 there were 300,000 Islamists in Gaza, they should have exterminated them then.

They breed like rats


16 posted on 11/10/2023 5:59:31 PM PST by baclava
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To: FarCenter

The first Gulf War, when we used almost unlimited means for limited ends was a victory. We then got bogged down in an endless commitment to a no-fly zone and sanctions enforcement.


17 posted on 11/10/2023 6:04:49 PM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

How many of these 13,000 killed are NOT *KEY* HAMAS OPERATIVES but Hamas fighters nonetheless?


18 posted on 11/10/2023 6:05:07 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: sauropod

I don’t take medication, I’m an herbal naturalist and do meditations.


19 posted on 11/10/2023 6:07:25 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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How many of these 13,000 killed are NOT *KEY* HAMAS OPERATIVES but Hamas fighters nonetheless?

Seek, c'mon.

There's no need for our Greatest Ally Evah! to carpet bomb an area the size of Lower Manhattan.

There are better ways to destroy Hamas without impacting the innocent civilians and children.

20 posted on 11/10/2023 6:09:19 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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