{"id":159220,"date":"2024-07-25T08:48:30","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T12:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=159220"},"modified":"2024-07-25T08:48:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T12:48:30","slug":"hamas-pier-its-a-wrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=159220","title":{"rendered":"Hamas Pier: It’s a Wrap"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nVice Adm. Brad Cooper: The pier has done exactly what we intended it to do<\/em><\/p>\n

What did the US military\u2019s Gaza aid pier actually accomplish?<\/h3>\n

By Noah Robertson and Geoff Ziezulewicz<\/strong><\/p>\n

When President Joe Biden announced the mission to build a humanitarian pier off the coast of Gaza this March, he framed it as a symbol of what the U.S. military can do.<\/p>\n

Palestinian civilians were dying five months into the Israel-Hamas war. Most of the territory was struggling to get food or near famine. And Israel wasn\u2019t opening more land routes for assistance to flow in.<\/p>\n

So the U.S. would make a route of its own.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis temporary pier would enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza every day,\u201d Biden said during his State of the Union speech.<\/p>\n

Instead, four months later, the pier\u2019s mission is over and its clearest legacy is what wasn\u2019t possible.<\/p>\n

Despite the work of 1,000 U.S. soldiers and sailors using the Joint-Logistics-Over-the-Shore, or JLOTS, capability, the pier couldn\u2019t stay afloat for long due to choppy seas. And while it got aid into the Gaza Strip, it couldn\u2019t fix another intractable problem: actually getting it to the Palestinian people..<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n

If the entire effort was to showcase the current administration’s stunning lack of anything resembling a foreign policy and its inability to effectively use the military, well done Admiral. Have another star for your LOM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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