Jennifer Kavanagh, director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, a foreign policy think tank, said white phosphorus munitions were typically used in ground operations and by special forces, not in airstrikes of the kind the United States is pursuing in Iran.
But if, for example, the administration were to take action against drug cartels in Latin America or to launch a ground operation in Cuba, forces might be expected to use “these types of white phosphorus munitions to disguise their movements,” said Dr. Kavanagh, formerly the director of the army strategy program at the RAND Corporation.
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