bases in the region since the end of the second world war, but this report is principally concerned with those located in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Jordan, and Kuwait. [...] After the fall of the Shah and the Iranian revolution in 1979, the bases were still considered key elements of a defense of the region against the Soviets, although Iranian support was factored out. [...] The graphic, below, displays the current basing structure in the CENTCOM AOR: After the occupation of Iraq, and through the rest of the first decade of the new century, three themes drove U. [...] In a war with Iran, the central calculus will be the measurement of how long the Iranians could sustain a drone and missile bombardment of neighboring countries, in the face of our efforts to strike their launching systems and command and control facilities. [...] Today, these aircraft are largely based at locations along the southern coast of the Arabian Gulf—the bases that are an artifact of planning against Russian incursions in the 1970s, and the Iraq and Afghanistan campaigns of the early decades of this century.
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