Serious question for this board. A vet buddy (and lurker here) and I were discussing the current thing, and we were wondering if our "greatest ally" has ever helped us militarily. We've searched for IDF in Iraq, Afghanistan, and even Vietnam, and it would appear that Israel never sent troops or participated in combat operations in any of those theaters as our allies. I've tried a bunch of different search terms to come up with anything even tangential, and nothing.
We're both fully awake but this is a massive redpill for both of us at the moment. I don't want to be hasty in the conclusion that our "greatest ally" has never actually acted as an ally, so I wanted to see if anons knew of specific, meaningful examples of joint US/IDF operations in the conflicts concerning our interests and not just assassinations / targeted hits.
So, any anons aware of the IDF actually acting as allied forces in any conflict?
After a brief search, I located this Israeli publication explaining the story of their current iron dome development and history.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/us-israel-missile-defense#:~:text=Patriot,-Developers%3A%20Raytheon%3B%20Hughes&text=Overview%3A%20The%20Patriot%20missile%20system,in%20shooting%20down%20incoming%20missiles.
It does lack in depth details that would clearly trace iron dome to the patriot missile system of the 90's and early 00's, but if from my perspective, it isn't believable that their new systems development wouldn't have built upon lessons learned from the patriot missile system because that had that system sitting in their own backyard the whole time. It's also interesting to me that they have contacted to US MIC corporations to build substantial portions of their own iron dome system.