The US is deploying troops to Saudi Arabia for the first time since the invasion of Iraq in 2003
US Marine Corps General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., Commander of the US Central Command , poses for a picture, while standing before a portrait of Saudi Arabia's founding King Abdulaziz ibn Saud and current Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman , during his visit to a military base in al-Kharj in central Saudi Arabia on July 18, 2019.
CENTCOM said the deployment "provides an additional deterrent, and ensures our ability to defend our forces and interests in the region from emergent, credible threats." In last June, tensions reached a high as both sides accused each other of downing the others' drones. An American dronein the Persian Gulf by an Iranian surface-to-air missile. A few weeks later, a US navy ship destroyed an Iranian fixed-wing drone in a “defensive action”, after the drone came within “threatening range”, a claim Iran denied.
According to Andreas Krieg, a professor at King’s College London, the troop movement “is part of posturing and the US is trying to increase its military options in case of a strike on Iran”.
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