The baseline is this. We have 30 to 40,000American troops stationed across eight or nine facilities in that region. All are within the reach, theoretically, not theoretically. In reality, All [American troops in the Middle East] are within the reach of an array of thousands of Iranian one way UAVs and Iranian short term ballistic missiles. short range of ballistic missiles that threaten our troop presence. We have to have enough force and power in the region just on a baseline to defend against that possibility … (16:05–1:53:42)
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Asserts that American troops in the Middle East are within reach of Iranian UAVs and missiles.
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