The Wall Street Journal’s Costas Paris and Lara Seligman write that the Pentagon is evaluating plans to send up to additional 10K ground troops to the Middle East to give President Trump greater optionality on military actions in Iran. That force would be added to the 5,000 Marines and the thousands of paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division already ordered to the region, the report states.
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