Pentagon to remove Patriot missile defense systems from the Middle East
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis decided to pull four Patriot missile systems from Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain “in a realignment of forces and capabilities as the military steps up its focus on threats from China and Russia.”
A Patriot anti-missile system deployed in a joint U.S. and Israeli military outpost in Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv is silhouetted against the setting sun(photo credit: NIR ELIAS / REUTERS)ByANNA AHRONHEIMUpdated:
