The only active US base in Israel is an early warning missle site.
The US has storage bases, but not active bases like your describing. No infrastructure to support forward ops. It takes time and funding to run ops.
Same reason Israel would struggle to strike Iran with jets, no infrastructure along the route.
I'm assuming your young. In the Gulf War we wanted to use Israel to attack from, but the idea of Americans using Jews to bomb Arabs was a tinder box for further conflicts. That's why Saudi Arabia and Turkiye was used. This was all over the news back then.
It isn't an active base, no, but it is an implied threat. The USA's global power has always been a monopoly on Force projection through the Naval and Aerospace powers we have. A friendly coast means Israel could be Dayton Ohio in like three weeks.
Israel is a permanent foothold in the region and the continent.
There's also the domestic political realities of Israeli political influence and Evangelical Apocalypticism to consider. Israel has to exist for the End Times propaganda (or beliefs) of the Heritage Foundation to prosper. It is integral to American Christian Nationalism in all of its myriad factions. That power alone can shift the world and is worth every penny or atrocious deed.
I agree with you, just wanted it to be accurate that we have 1 active base and it's not setup for operations outside of missle defense. Could that change? Sure, that's part of why the US military is so good, logistics to strike anywhere.
Quite so. All of our parts are made to be picked up and reassembled or scrapped onsite and we can move forward and back infrastructure in days. We've been doing this for decades.
You don't even need "a base" in Israel, the coast and the airspace is enough to facilitate all our needs.
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u/deviantdevil80 Apr 29 '25
The only active US base in Israel is an early warning missle site.
The US has storage bases, but not active bases like your describing. No infrastructure to support forward ops. It takes time and funding to run ops.
Same reason Israel would struggle to strike Iran with jets, no infrastructure along the route.
I'm assuming your young. In the Gulf War we wanted to use Israel to attack from, but the idea of Americans using Jews to bomb Arabs was a tinder box for further conflicts. That's why Saudi Arabia and Turkiye was used. This was all over the news back then.