Iran Exposed How Vulnerable Our Bases Are

Mr. Hennigan writes about national security for Opinion.

A month before President Trump launched his war against Iran, construction crews broke ground on a multimillion-dollar renovation of sailors’ barracks at the U.S. base in Bahrain, the Navy’s regional headquarters. The project, backed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, was just the latest American investment in the vast campus, which has enabled U.S. forces to project power across the Middle East for decades.

Then, in the opening hours of the Iranian conflict, the future of the barracks,........

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