{"id":198927,"date":"2019-12-07T07:02:54","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T07:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=198927"},"modified":"2019-12-10T07:48:22","modified_gmt":"2019-12-10T07:48:22","slug":"trump-administration-considering-large-military-expansion-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=198927","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration considering large military expansion in Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zachary Halaschak \u2013 Washington Examiner Dec 4, 2019<\/h1>\n
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The USS Abraham Lincoln is currently deployed in the Persian Gulf. Depending what the Trump Administration decides, others could join it. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The Trump administration is weighing whether to significantly expand the U.S. military presence in the Middle East to counter Iran.<\/span><\/p>\n

The move could double the number of troops in the region, deploying up to 14,000 more, according<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>to the Wall Street Journal<\/em>. Dozens of ships could also be moved into the area in addition to military hardware. President Trump could make a decision on the increase before the end of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n

Even if Trump doesn\u2019t approve the large-scale deployment, he might give the green light to a smaller one. Among military officials and the administration, there is concern about an Iranian attack on U.S. interests. The thought is that maintaining a larger military presence could act as a deterrent from further provocation from Tehran.<\/span><\/p>\n

The United States has sent about 14,000 troops to the region since May after officials indicated a heightened threat from Iran, who opposes both America and Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

In September, Iran attacked Saudi oil facilities<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, a move that took down 5% of the world\u2019s oil supply for a time. In July, the U.S. planned airstrikes against Iranian facilities in response to Iran shooting down a U.S. drone<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, but Trump reportedly called off the attack<\/a><\/strong><\/span> in the last minutes, over concerns about possible loss of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

John Rood, the undersecretary of defense for policy, told reporters Wednesday that the situation regarding military assets in the Middle East is fluid.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDeterrence is dynamic, our response is going to be dynamic,\u201d Rood explained<\/span><\/p>\n

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Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The rationale is that increasing U.S. military presence in the Middle East will deter Iran from striking U.S. forces already in the region <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iran"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198927"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198930,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198927\/revisions\/198930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}