What is Tower 22?
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A Peek into America’s Vast Military Presence Around the World
In the dry expanses of northeastern Jordan, where the stark, yet beautiful, desert landscape converges with the borders of Syria and Iraq, sits a little-discussed American military outpost called Tower 22.
This tiny remote base — recently thrust into the international spotlight following a deadly Iranian drone attack that claimed the lives of three American troops last weekend — embodies the complex tapestry of Middle Eastern geopolitics, American military strategy, and America’s far-reaching network of overseas military installations.
The US operates about 750 bases in at least 80 countries worldwide — the goal is to ensure global stability, respond quickly to crises, and keep conflict well away from American shores.
But what these bases really represent, especially when combined with the Navy’s eleven floating bases, (the supercarriers), is power projection.
