{"id":84734,"date":"2026-07-23T08:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84734"},"modified":"2026-07-23T08:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T12:08:11","slug":"u-s-moving-more-military-forces-into-mideast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/u-s-moving-more-military-forces-into-mideast\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Moving More Military Forces Into Mideast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Fox News:<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/live-news\/iran-war-trump-strait-of-hormuz-oil-07-22-26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The U.S. is moving forces<\/a>, weapons and medics to the Middle East to give President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0broader military options,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/world\/middle-east\/u-s-surges-forces-toward-middle-east-giving-trump-options-to-expand-iran-war-e5d627b1?mod=hp_lead_pos1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> reported Wednesday. Citing officials, the outlet said the recent &#8220;surge&#8221; in forces and assets comes as Trump considers widening the conflict against <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/world\/conflicts\/iran\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Iran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-item-body\">\n<p>Special operations forces have deployed to the region from their U.S. bases, according to flight-tracking data and U.S. officials, the report said. Squadrons of jet fighters have also been staged across the Middle East. Bomber aircraft at bases in the U.S. and U.K. are on high alert to ramp up operations, one official said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Fox News: The U.S. is moving forces, weapons and medics to the Middle East to give President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0broader military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84735,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84734\/revisions\/84735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}