The deployment is meant to “assure and enhance the defense of Saudi Arabia,” a spokesman said, following attacks on the kingdom’s oil infrastructure last month.
The Pentagon is sending about 2,000 more troops to Saudi Arabia, including squadrons of fighter jets and air defense missile batteries, Defense Department officials said Friday.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper authorized the deployment of two fighter squadrons, two batteries of Patriot missiles, a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile system, and an Air Force headquarters unit “at the request of U.S. Central Command,” Pentagon spokesperson Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement.
The deployment is meant to “assure and enhance the defense of Saudi Arabia,” Hoffman said, following attacks on the kingdom’s oil infrastructure last month that the U.S. and European allies have blamed on Iran.
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