U.S. Stockpiling Fighting Vehicles Near Iraq Ahead of Anti-ISIS Offensive -- US News and World Report
Military equipment in Afghanistan is being detoured to battle different and deadly extremists.
Since June, the U.S. military has been slowly stockpiling massive amounts of its gear coming out of Afghanistan at a depot in Kuwait adjacent to a bustling commercial port, in preparation for ultimately shipping it across the border into Iraq for an allied offensive against the Islamic State group.
The facility's warehouses and large asphalt yards now are home to roughly 3,100 vehicles, most of them MRAPs – the mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles that have been ubiquitous in America’s prolonged wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. There is also some electronic equipment and other supplies at the depot, located at Kuwait's Shuaiba port, defense officials say.
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My Comment: The question that now needs to be answered is .... will it be U.S. ground troops driving and using these military vehicles when the anti-Islamic State campaign is launched.
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