Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, USA, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was in Israel last week where he met with his IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz and other officials.
A flurry of recent military cooperation between the United States and Israel includes a company of U.S. Marines spending a month at two of Israel's premier training facilities, upcoming exercises involving the largest U.S. Army ground force units ever to visit Israel, and the annual but bigger-than-ever Juniper Cobra joint missile defense exercise. Taken together, there is no doubt that the Pentagon is fully embracing the range of impressive force enhancement options for the U.S. military that Israel offers.
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