{"id":150338,"date":"2025-06-22T16:29:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T23:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=150338"},"modified":"2025-06-22T16:29:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T23:29:35","slug":"diego-garcia-role-in-middle-eastern-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2025\/06\/22\/diego-garcia-role-in-middle-eastern-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Diego Garcia \u2013 Role in Middle Eastern War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong>Dr. Itay Gal in Jerusalem Post, in Jerusalem Post, June 2025<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>What is Diego Garcia? The US military base that will be key to operations against Iran \u2026.?&nbsp; What is there, what aircraft operate from it, and why could it become a critical link in any future conflict in the Middle East?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/STEALTH-BOMBER.webp?ssl=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/thuppahis.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/STEALTH-BOMBER.webp?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-90933\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong><em>&nbsp;US B2 Spirit stealth bomber<\/em><\/strong>As President Donald Trump weighs up striking Iranian nuclear enrichment facilities, this rarely mentioned US military base will become key to any possible US operations against Iran.Located in the heart of the Indian Ocean, surrounded by water on all sides, out of sight but very close to global conflict zones, lies one of the United States\u2019 best-known secrets, and a prime operational asset, especially when looking west toward Iran: the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/breaking-news\/article-848480\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Diego Garcia military base.<\/a>What is there, what aircraft operate from it, and why could it become a critical link in any future conflict in the Middle East?The strategic military base has dominated the media this week, but it has long held a presence on the Pentagon\u2019s operational maps. Amid rising tensions with countries like Iran, Diego Garcia has transformed from a forgotten island into a critical strategic jumping-off point, especially for stealth aircraft such as the B-2 Spirit and the B-1 Lancer, which are capable of reaching directly into the heart of Iran and returning without requiring aerial refueling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Full Report<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thuppahis.com\/2025\/06\/22\/diego-garcia-role-in-middle-eastern-war\/\">Diego Garcia \u2013 Role in Middle Eastern War | Thuppahi&#8217;s Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Itay Gal in Jerusalem Post, in Jerusalem Post, June 2025 What is Diego Garcia? The US military base that will be key to operations against Iran \u2026.?&nbsp; What is there, what aircraft operate from it, and why could it become a critical link in any future conflict in the Middle East? &nbsp;US B2 Spirit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-150338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}