{"id":162081,"date":"2024-10-15T09:05:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T13:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=162081"},"modified":"2024-10-13T18:45:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T22:45:40","slug":"us-to-send-troops-and-missile-system-to-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=162081","title":{"rendered":"US to send troops and missile system to Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/NPC-Iran-leader.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-162083\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/NPC-Iran-leader-292x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/NPC-Iran-leader-292x300.jpg 292w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/NPC-Iran-leader-325x333.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/NPC-Iran-leader-768x788.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/NPC-Iran-leader.jpg 778w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 292px) 100vw, 292px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A U.S. Army Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery, and the troops needed to operate this system, will be sent to Israel. Iran issued a warning on X when they heard that the US was considering this option. Major General Pat Ryder, spokesman for the Pentagon, said that this deployment underscores America&#8217;s ironclad commitment to Israel&#8217;s defense.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From The Associated Press:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, Pentagon spokesman, said in a statement that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin authorized the deployment of the THAAD battery at the direction of President Joe Biden. He said the system will help bolster Israel&#8217;s air defenses following Iran&#8217;s ballistic missile attacks on Israel in April and October.<\/p>\n<p>The delivery of the sophisticated missile defense system risks further inflaming the conflict in the Middle East despite widespread diplomatic efforts to avoid an all-out war. The Iranian warning came in a post on the social platform X long associated with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who noted the earlier reports that the U.S. was considering the deployment.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon have been clashing since Oct. 8, 2023, when the Lebanese militant group began firing rockets over the border in support of its ally Hamas in Gaza. Late last month, Israel launched a ground invasion into Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>Israel is widely believed to be preparing a military response to Iran&#8217;s Oct. 1 attack when it fired roughly 180 missiles into Israel.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief exchange with reporters before leaving Florida on Sunday, Biden said he agreed to deploy the THAAD battery &#8220;to defend Israel.&#8221; Biden spoke at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa after making a quick visit to to [sic] see the damage caused by Hurricane Milton and meet with first responders, residents and local leaders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baldor, L. (2024, October 13). US will send a missile defense system and troops to run it to Israel to aid defense against Iran. <em>The Associated Press<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/thaad-israel-missile-defense-iran-pentagon-34a0b06d82352df6cb0b80d94d4913c8\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. Army Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery, and the troops needed to operate this &hellip; <a title=\"US to send troops and missile system to Israel\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=162081\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US to send troops and missile system to Israel<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,232,308,466,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-army-news","category-iran","category-israel","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=162081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=162081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=162081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=162081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}