WSJ: U.S., Israel Build Military Cooperation

Carly Lindauer — August 16, 2010 – 10:09 am | Barack Obama | Foreign Policy | Israel | Military Comments (0) Add a comment

This weekend the Wall Street Journal reported that under President Barack Obama’s leadership military cooperation with Israel has increased. The article said, “U.S. military aid to Israel has increased markedly this year. Top-ranking U.S. and Israeli soldiers have shuttled between Tel Aviv and Washington with unusual frequency in recent months. A series of joint military exercises in Israel has included a record number of American troops.”

According to the article, “This month, about 200 U.S. Marines joined a battalion of Israeli soldiers for an all-night march through the Negev desert, the culmination of three weeks of joint drills. As dawn approached, they crept up on a mock village, an Israeli military-built recreation of a typical Palestinian hamlet, used for combat training.”

The piece also noted, “The exercise was the biggest U.S.-Israeli joint infantry exercise ever, according to officials. By comparison, at the same exercise last year, there were only around 20 U.S. Marines involved. In the fall, there will be an even bigger joint infantry exercise involving tanks and armored vehicles, officials said.”

You can read the full article here.

This development is part of a larger trend of closer and closer military cooperation between the United States and Israel under President Obama’s leadership. NJDC has been tracking this trend and you can read more here, here, and here.

You can also learn more about the Obama Administration’s efforts to secure Israel by checking out NJDC’s fact sheet.

 

 

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