Washington’s deployment of most of its long-range cruise missiles from the Pacific to the Middle East could indicate it has arms supply constraints in the Iran war, while signalling to “friends and foes alike in the Indo-Pacific” its interests lie elsewhere, analysts say.
According to US media reports, the Pentagon ordered nearly the entire inventory of its Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile-Extended Range (JASSM-ER) cruise missiles to be moved from the Pacific, and even from the continental…