White House send 120,000 troops to ME

NYT: White House reviews plan that would send up to 120,000 US troops to Middle East

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/14/politics/us-troops-middle-east-iran/index.html

Washington (CNN)Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan presented a military plan at a meeting of top national security officials last week that would send as many as 120,000 US troops to the Middle East in the event that Iran strikes American forces in the region or speeds up its development of nuclear weapons, The New York Times reported Monday.