{"id":26368,"date":"2026-02-20T15:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=26368"},"modified":"2026-02-20T15:40:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T23:40:29","slug":"u-s-surges-largest-mideast-airpower-since-03-as-iran-strike-could-come-within-days-israel-on-highest-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/u-s-surges-largest-mideast-airpower-since-03-as-iran-strike-could-come-within-days-israel-on-highest-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Surges Largest Mideast Airpower Since \u201903 as Iran Strike Could Come \u2018Within Days\u2019 \u2014 Israel on Highest Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has assembled the largest concentration of airpower in the Middle East since the 2003 Iraq invasion \u2014 deploying two aircraft carriers, advanced stealth fighters, refueling tankers, and layered missile defenses into theater \u2014 as multiple U.S. and Israeli reports warn President Donald Trump could authorize strikes on Iran \u201cas soon as Saturday,\u201d with talks described by American officials as \u201cvery far apart\u201d and even a \u201cnear nothing-burger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2026\/02\/19\/u-s-surges-largest-mideast-airpower-since-03-as-iran-strike-could-come-within-days-israel-on-highest-alert\/\">breitbart.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States has assembled the largest concentration of airpower in the Middle East since the 2003 Iraq invasion \u2014 deploying two aircraft carriers, advanced stealth fighters, refueling tankers, and layered missile defenses into theater \u2014 as multiple U.S. and Israeli reports warn President Donald Trump could authorize strikes on Iran \u201cas soon as Saturday,\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/u-s-surges-largest-mideast-airpower-since-03-as-iran-strike-could-come-within-days-israel-on-highest-alert\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">U.S. Surges Largest Mideast Airpower Since \u201903 as Iran Strike Could Come \u2018Within Days\u2019 \u2014 Israel on Highest Alert<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21345,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/red_horse_blog-300x100-300x100-1.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-6Ri","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26369,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26368\/revisions\/26369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}