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January 25, 2023

A Massive Military Exercise Shows the Strength of the U.S.-Israel Alliance, and Sends a Message to Tehran

Juniper Oak 2023.

On Monday, the American and Israeli militaries began a weeklong, large-scale joint exercise in Israel and the Mediterranean Sea, involving 6,400 personnel from the U.S. armed forces and 1,180 from the IDF—not to mention all kinds of aircraft, ships, and other materiel. Bradley Bowman and Ryan Brobst provide an overview of the exercise, known as Juniper Oak, and explain the signals it is meant to convey in the region:

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