'We do not want to die for Israel': US troops increasingly oppose Iran war
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Some US military personnel, speaking on condition of anonymity, have become so disillusioned with the US operation against Iran that they are ready to leave the military, HuffPost reports.
A military official treating service members evacuated from the Middle East to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany stated that troops are suffering from "inadequate force protection and planning." US military officials are also already reporting serious, destabilizing losses from Iranian ballistic missiles and drones.
A ground operation would be "an absolute disaster… we don’t have a plan for that," the official said earlier this week.
"We can’t even fully defend a single land base in the theater," he adds.
Meanwhile, a veteran and reservist who mentors junior officers tells HuffPost that her contacts are expressing a new sense of disillusionment.
"We do not want to die for Israel — we don’t want to be political pawns," says the reservist, who hears similar comments from military personnel.
Another reservist who has spoken with current troops separately reported hearing similar comments.
"I’ve shared conscientious objector information six times in the past two weeks and I’ve been in the military almost 20 years — I’ve never had people reach out this way," the first reservist continues.
Most service members who are currently considering registering as conscientious objectors cite the February 28 airstrike on a school in the Iranian city of Minab as a turning point. The strike killed at least 175 people, including dozens of schoolgirls.
US forces launched airstrikes against Iran on February 28. In the fourth week of the war, US President Donald Trump announced a possible ground operation in Iran.
NATO countries refused to help Trump in unblocking the Strait of Hormuz, after which the American leader expressed outrage and declared that the Alliance was a paper tiger.
