"US 'likely' to deploy anti-missile system to..." Topic

… protect American troops in Iraq.

"The Pentagon is likely deploying a missile-defense system to Iraq in response to Iran's ballistic missile attack on an Iraqi base housing American troops earlier this month, U.S. defense officials tell Fox News.

The move comes after U.S. troops were sent to a medical facility in Germany after complaining of head injuries following the Iranian missile attack

Eleven U.S. troops were flown out of Iraq late last week for treatment out of an "abundance of caution," according to a spokesman for American forces in the Middle East….."
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Sounds like the proverbial locking the barn door after the horse is already gone.

I wish we would hurry up and pull all our troops home.

So whilst Iranian missiles first rained on Saudi oil production facilities and then US bases in Iraq, a US anti missile unit, 62nd Air Defense Artillery Regiment, has been sitting idly in Romania. According to the US it was deployed there to counter Iranian missiles and not Russian ones as are all the US THAAD units including those that were proposed to be deployed in Poland (very close to Iran compared to say Antarctica) .

Seems there's a disconnect here.

Perhaps they need to re-think their standard deployment protection plans.

We're providing anti-missile protection for Europe, since they can't or won't do it for themselves (I suspect the latter is the more likely scenario here, since there are a number of defense companies throughout Europe that should be capable of designing weaponry to do so).

Glup….!

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