U.S. policymakers have grown comfortable viewing overseas bases as strategic assets and guarantors of stability.
As the war between Israel and Hamas rages and hundreds of thousands of Israeli troops wait for the ground stage of the campaign, U.S. officials are doing everything they can to ensure the fighting doesn't spread outside of the Gaza Strip. It's a tall order, made even taller by a bulky U.S. presence in the region that has grown bulkier with the deployment of two carrier strike groups, A-10 attack planes, and more troops with standby orders.
But the attacks are happening regardless. U.S. troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked at least 13 times since Oct.17. In one incident, 20 U.S. troops suffered minor injuries after multiple attack drones targeted their base at al-Tanf, located in southern Syria next to the Iraqi border. On the same day, drones hit the Ain al-Asad airbase in western Iraq on two separate occasions, destroying a hangar in the process.This is hardly the first drone or rocket strike on U.S.
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