But Iranian attacks on those bases have forced the Pentagon to redeploy troops and to rely heavily on less-vulnerable installations outside the Gulf, a shift showing how the war has already forced changes in the U.S. posture.
“They’ve already pushed us out of the Persian Gulf effectively in terms of usable military power,” said Rosemary Kelanic, director of the Middle East Program at Defense Priorities and a critic of the U.S. military presence in the Middle East.
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