Washington is weighing a pullback from facilities in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, with some damaged infrastructure potentially left unrepaired, the report says
Iranian missile and drone strikes have inflicted up to $15 billion in damage on military installations hosting American forces across the Middle East, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing sources and its own satellite imagery analysis. The massive destruction adds to the Pentagon’s mounting war bill, which has already reached nearly $50 billion.
The newspaper’s analysis identified a total of 274 damaged structures across 24 installations with an American military presence. At least 119 buildings at 13 installations were damaged in the opening two weeks alone; the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain was among the hardest hit. Tehran launched a retaliatory wave of strikes following the unprovoked US-Israeli attack which started the conflict on February 28.
An unnamed US official familiar with the matter told the WSJ that the Pentagon estimated damage to bases from Iranian strikes – which became increasingly precise as the conflict escalated – at a minimum of $5 billion. Another WSJ source suggested that the number could potentially be as high as $15 billion.
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