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The US has sent to Israel one of its icons in the military field. America fears the fact that the military exercise in Gaza could turn into a boomerang and is closely monitoring the situation.
They have sent there James Glynn, a general who led the Marines in Iraq and then the campaign to stop ISIS.
The Biden administration is concerned that Israel is not yet ready to launch a ground invasion with a plan that will work, writes the New York Times. All American sources are careful to point out that the United States is not telling Israel "what to do," but sending Glynn — who will not remain in Israel when an offensive is launched — serves to help analyze the challenges of an urban war.
Israel must decide, for example, whether to try to eliminate Hamas with surgical strikes combined with special forces strikes (as US aircraft and Iraqi and Kurdish troops did in Mosul) or whether to go in with tanks and infantry (as the Marines and American soldiers, along with Iraqi and British forces in Fallujah in 2004), the Times continues.
In both cases there will be losses, but in the second they will be higher, both from civilians and from troops. Many in the Pentagon believe that the Mosul and Raqqa operations conducted more than a decade after Fallujah are a better model for urban warfare. But even in Mosul, estimates of civilians killed range from 9,000 to 11,000. The Biden administration is also preparing for the possibility that the 600,000 Americans living in Israel and Lebanon will have to evacuate in the event of an escalation of the war. The Washington Post writes that this would be the worst-case scenario, "and there are scenarios that are considered more likely," but that still need to be considered.
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