The New York Times really buried the lede in a fresh report entitled “Iran’s Attacks Force US Troops to Work Remotely.” With the report noting that before the Iran war started the Pentagon had some 40,000 troops in the region, we are told that many have been widely dispersed due to the Iranian retaliatory bombing campaign on the Gulf, even as far as Europe, and must ‘work remotely’.

“Many of the 13 military bases in the region used by American troops are all but uninhabitable, with the ones in Kuwait, which is next door to Iran, suffering perhaps the most damage.” This is based on statements by unnamed US defense officials who admit they’ve had to scramble to find ‘alternative’ housing and office solutions for personnel.

The report goes so far as to say the situation is already worse than that of prior Iraq and Afghan wars in terms of danger to ‘front line’ bases and exposure to enemy fire:

While Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan and the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, for example, were often targeted in suicide bombings and other attacks, neither the Taliban nor Iraqi militias possessed the kind of ballistic missile capability that Iran has.

During the war in Iraq in particular, the United States built up its bases there and in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Now, the war in Iran has made all of those bases vulnerable — to the point where service members can’t really live or work there for extended periods, military officials said.

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/13-us-bases-uninhabitable-pentagon-admits-much-iran-war-overseen-personnel-working