Almasirah:Al-Monitor Reveals ‘Red Sands’ Training Site for Gulf, Israeli Forces

Al-Monitor Reveals ‘Red Sands’ Training Site for Gulf, Israeli Forces

News - World: The American Al-Monitor website revealed in a report an organized coordination between the US military and the Riyadh government, to link the air defense networks of the Gulf states with the Zionist entity.

The report, quoting military officials in the US Central Command, who declined to be identified, said that one of the top priorities of the US Central Command is to persuade the Gulf countries to link their air defense networks with the Israeli entity to confront what they called the Iranian threat.

To that end, CENTCOM commander Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla and his staff have in recent months been discussing with regional counterparts a proposal to set up a new training site in Saudi Arabia to experiment with new and existing counter-drone technologies.

The report, which was published on Thursday, indicated that the site, tentatively dubbed the Red Sands Integrated Experimentation Center (a nod to the White Sands Missile Range, the US Army’s premier testing ground in New Mexico), would play a key role in the Biden administration's goal of fostering trust and collaboration between Arab and eventually Israeli militaries on collective defense against Iran.

“No one country in the region has enough air and missile defense assets to protect them from an attack from any direction,” Cogbill told Al-Monitor. “It has to be an integrated plan, with overlapping sectors of fire.”

“And that’s why we’re quietly building this regional security construct to involve as many nations as possible, engaging them first in a bilateral manner and then testing their willingness to work multilaterally with other countries where they may not have been willing to work [together] previously,” he said.

The proliferation of advanced Iranian drone and missile technology has undermined the US’ total air superiority in the region for the first time anywhere in the world since the Korean War, former CENTCOM commander Gen. Kenneth “Frank” McKenzie told members of Congress last year.

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