US Base Damage: Iranian strikes destroyed hundreds of buildings across Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, and Jordan, forcing CENTCOM to relocate personnel and assets.
Munition Shortages: Key US munition stockpiles depleted, affecting operations and logistics; Diego Garcia became a critical resupply hub, stretching cycles to 14–18 days.
Diplomatic Facility Attacks: Over 600 attacks damaged US embassies and consulates, causing roughly $184 million in damage, leading to widespread authorized and ordered departures of personnel.
The Pentagon’s official watchdog released a special report about the Iran war on Monday, representing the Defense Department’s first formal accounting of US equipment and facility losses from the conflict.
The inspector general, citing its communications with US Central Command, said that “Iranian strikes damaged and destroyed hundreds of buildings and structures at US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman and Jordan” during the war’s first months. The report, which covers the start of the war on February 28 through June 30, also acknowledged the depletion of key US munition stockpiles.
CNN previously reported the destruction of critical US assets such as missile defense radar installations in the war’s early days.
Those Iranian strikes contributed to significant changes in how US troops have traditionally operated in the region, the report said. CENTCOM “shifted personnel, assets and storage facilities” as they came under attack from Iran and its proxy forces.
Some of the moves included the withdrawal of Army medical evacuation helicopters from Iraq and Kuwait, the report said, meaning “most medical evacuations have been carried out by ground … to local treatment facilities.”