The US-Iran war highlights an “uncomfortable truth for the Gulf states:
not only has their trillion-dollar acquisition of US weapons not translated into US protection at the crucial time,
but their respective militaries are also not adequately prepared for the new kind of attritional air war to which they are being exposed.
Despite huge investment in mainly US armaments,
the report identified significant shortcomings:
“overwhelming reliance on US-supplied air- and missile-defence systems and munitions;
a failure to achieve regional defence integration;
a shortage of minesweeping capability;
limited retaliatory options;
and the prohibitive costs stemming from an overdependence on expensive, high-end systems to take down relatively inexpensive drones and missiles”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/30/gulf-states-rethink-trillion-dollar-defence-us-iran-war-iiss-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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