The US military is preparing for the possible collapse of ceasefire talks between Israel and Hamas amid fears that their breakdown could spark a broader regional conflict.
General CQ Brown, chair of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Thursday told the Financial Times: “[I] think about . . .[if] the talks stall or completely stop, how that impacts the tension in the region and the things we need to do to be prepared should that change.”
Speaking while travelling to a meeting of the Ukraine contact group in Germany, Brown said he is weighing how regional actors would respond to the failure of the talks, “and whether they increase any type of their activity, which potentially goes down a path of miscalculation and causes . . . the conflict to broaden”.