EUCOM Commander: Navy Can't Defend Both Israel and US
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- EUCOM's top general privately warned the Pentagon this week that he lacks sufficient naval forces to continue protecting Israel from incoming ballistic missiles, officials said.
- The warning illustrates how the Iran war has imposed constraints on the U.S. military, surfacing a direct trade-off between defending Israel and defending the U.S. homeland.
Why it matters: The warning surfaces a direct Pentagon resource trade-off: keeping naval missile defense for Israel versus defending the U.S. homeland. Israel is the visible loser, with reduced naval ballistic-missile protection as the Iran war constrains fleet availability.
