{"id":64550,"date":"2023-05-04T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2023\/05\/04\/now-is-the-time-to-integrate-mideast-air-defenses\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T00:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T00:53:41","slug":"now-is-the-time-to-integrate-mideast-air-defenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/commentary\/2023\/05\/04\/now-is-the-time-to-integrate-mideast-air-defenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Now is the time to integrate Mideast air defenses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In September 2019, a swarm of Iranian drones and cruise missiles temporarily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/09\/14\/world\/middleeast\/saudi-arabia-refineries-drone-attack.html#:~:text=Drone%20attacks%20claimed%20by%20Yemen's,disruption%20in%20world%20oil%20supplies.\" target=\"_blank\">took half of Saudi oil production offline<\/a>. Four months later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/pictureshow\/2020\/01\/14\/796219386\/the-aftermath-of-irans-missile-attack-on-an-iraqi-base-housing-u-s-troops\" target=\"_blank\">a barrage of missiles<\/a> obliterated a base in Iraq, wounding more than 100 U.S. troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In early 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-dubai-united-arab-emirates-abu-dhabi-yemen-8bdefdf900ce46a6fd6c7bc685bf838a\" target=\"_blank\">a missile and drone attack<\/a> on the United Arab Emirates by Iran-backed rebels in Yemen killed three civilians. Collectively, the attacks highlighted an unsettling reality: the U.S. and its partners are one successful Iranian strike away from catastrophe, resulting in mass casualties, destruction of infrastructure vital to the global economy or both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the face of Iran\u2019s growing threat, America\u2019s Middle East friends urgently need to improve their defenses. As explained in a <a href=\"https:\/\/jinsa.org\/jinsa_report\/build-it-and-they-will-come-strategy-for-integrating-air-defenses\/\" target=\"_blank\">new task force report<\/a> we authored for the Jewish Institute for National Security of America, that means getting U.S. partners to integrate their air defense systems into a broader regionwide network. Working together, each country\u2019s ability to defeat Iranian attacks would be enhanced over what they can achieve acting alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the logic of integrated air and missile defenses (IAMD) is compelling, achieving it has historically proven difficult. The region\u2019s political rivalries have repeatedly foiled efforts at multinational cooperation \u2014especially in an area like IAMD that puts a premium on sharing sensitive data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Importantly, that may be changing. Mounting attacks have concentrated the minds of the region\u2019s states as never before on the severity of the challenge not only from Iran, but from its proxies in Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Syria. Their offensive strike power is now a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/special-briefing-via-telephone-with-lt-gen-alexus-g-grynkewich-afcent-commander\/\" target=\"_blank\">360-degree threat<\/a> no single nation can effectively address alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also driving the opportunity for IAMD is Israel\u2019s expanding security relations with its neighbors \u2014 thanks to the Abraham Accords, but even more importantly to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/mideast-africa\/2021\/09\/07\/us-central-command-absorbs-israel-into-its-area-of-responsibility\/\" target=\"_blank\">Israel\u2019s move to U.S. Central Command\u2019s<\/a> area of responsibility. CENTCOM\u2019s convening power provides a venue for Israel\u2019s military to interact regularly with America\u2019s Arab partners. Possessing the most advanced multilayered defenses in the world, Israel\u2019s addition to U.S. IAMD efforts could be a game changer for Arab countries seeking solutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CENTCOM has already taken advantage of the opening. Unprecedented progress has been made over the past two years in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/u-s-held-secret-meeting-with-israeli-arab-military-chiefs-to-counter-iran-air-threat-11656235802\" target=\"_blank\">assembling an informal coalition<\/a>, including Israel and six Arab states. This group convenes regular meetings not only of chiefs of defense, but at multiple lower levels of command as well, to discuss IAMD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Members of the coalition are already sharing aerial threat information with CENTCOM\u2019s Combined Air Operations Center in Qatar that passes it to neighbors at risk. Despite using antiquated communications like telephone calls, this rudimentary cooperation on a regionwide early warning system represents a genuine breakthrough after years of stillborn efforts to advance cooperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While useful against slow-moving drones, a voluntary system of information sharing based on analog technologies is insufficient to meet the full scope of the Iranian challenge. True integration will require a willingness to share threats at the speed of modern warfare. The critical first step should be digitally connecting each state\u2019s air defense sensors and radars to the operations center, where multiple data streams can be fused into a common operating picture of the region\u2019s airspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By gaining access to sensors deployed on the territory of their neighbors, a common operating picture will significantly enhance the air domain awareness of each member, allowing it to close gaps in its own radar coverage and to track a larger number of threats \u2014 earlier, more accurately and at greater distance from its own territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With appropriate investments, the technical challenge of digitally connecting sensors to the operations center using encrypted data-sharing links is resolvable. The larger impediment remains political. Countries fear sharing data will expose sensitive information about capabilities and vulnerabilities that neighbors could leak or abuse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CENTCOM\u2019s role in allaying these concerns is pivotal. Every U.S. partner trusts CENTCOM more than its neighbors. With the operations center at the center of a hub-and-spoke system, CENTCOM should conduct constant simulations and training to demonstrate both the utility and its ability to secure each member\u2019s data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But CENTCOM\u2019s commitment alone isn\u2019t sufficient. U.S. partners will also need to be convinced President Joe Biden is fully invested in the project. In a post-Afghanistan era, the message that America is leaving the Middle East has metastasized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some suspect Washington\u2019s interest in integration is a ruse to facilitate further withdrawal. Overcoming those doubts will require a sustained campaign to make clear a U.S.-led effort on IAMD is designed to consolidate \u2014 not abandon \u2014 America\u2019s enduring commitment to the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For 20 years, U.S. administrations have failed to advance Middle East IAMD. New dynamics have created the best opportunity in a generation for progress. But realizing it likely depends on Biden\u2019s readiness to move the issue higher on his already-crowded list of national security priorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Joseph Guastella served as the U.S. Air Force\u2019s deputy chief of staff for operations and as commander of U.S. Air Forces Central. Retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. David Mann served as commander of Army Space and Missile Defense Command. 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