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Iran's attacks on the American military presence in the Persian Gulf have turned a long-running strategic debate into an immediate one.
The question is whether a "military footprint," the network of bases, troops, and equipment a country maintains on foreign soil, is worth the cost of rebuilding once it has been shown to be vulnerable.
America's footprint in the Gulf is vast, built up across the region starting in the 1990s, and the attacks have made its exposure impossible to set aside. The strikes revealed physical damage.
They also opened a harder question about whether the underlying model holds up.
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