Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\tMilitary\u2019s novel floating pier arrives in Gaza amid security concerns<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t The Gaza aid pier is made possible by an oft-neglected but vital military capability known as Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore, or JLOTS.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n
The Pentagon estimated the pier would cost $230 million, though the final number isn\u2019t yet certain, and Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, the deputy commander of U.S. Central Command, said it would come in well under budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A clearer cost has been to U.S. personnel: One soldier remains in the hospital due to a pier-related mishap in May, <\/b>and is still recovering stateside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Citing privacy regulations, DOD officials have declined to explain what injured the soldier and two other service members, who were able to return to duty after the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
U.S. officials have defended the mission as the safest and most efficient way to get American assistance into Gaza during the war. And they can cite almost 20 million pounds of aid as evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe pier has done exactly what we intended it to do,\u201d said Cooper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many watching from the sidelines in Washington disagree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pier arrived at a moment of acute political pressure on the White House to help the Palestinian people, said Steven Cook, an expert on the Middle East at the Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite that, he said, it\u2019s become an emblem of what the U.S. hasn\u2019t learned in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is a constant theme in American foreign policy in the Middle East,\u201d he said. \u201cDespite our best intentions, we didn\u2019t really understand what we were walking into.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nPalestinians storm trucks loaded with humanitarian aid brought in through a U.S.-built pier, in the central Gaza Strip, on May 18, 2024. (AP Photo\/Abdel Kareem Hana)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u2018I was hopeful that would be more successful\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n When announcing that the pier was being dismantled, military officials came with a list of statistics. The JLOTS pier delivered 19.4 million pounds of aid, or enough to feed half a million Palestinians for one month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By comparison, the U.S. has sent 2.4 million pounds via air drops and 33 million pounds via land crossings since the start of the war in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In its 20 days of operating, the admiral said, it carried double or triple the amount of aid the U.S. initially expected. Altogether, it was the most humanitarian support America has ever sent to the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat data stands on its own,\u201d Cooper said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And yet, those numbers have another side. The aid may have gotten onto Gazan territory, but much of it hasn\u2019t reached people in need. Due to rough weather, the pier was in service only about one-third of the time since it was first anchored in May. At one point, it buckled under rough seas and had to be repaired in the Israeli city of Ashdod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, crowds ransacked at least one aid-laden truck coming from the pier before it could get to distribution points, The Associated Press reported, and the United Nations halted aid distribution at times due to security concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\nU.S. troops at work on the Gaza aid pier on June 7. (Staff Sgt. Mikayla Fritz\/Army)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cYou can have the best fighting force in the world and the best logisticians in the world, but high seas and strong winds still create quite a dilemma,\u201d said Brad Bowman, who researches U.S. defense policy at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the NATO summit in July, even Biden acknowledged that the pier could have performed better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was hopeful that would be more successful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A JLOTS test case<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Still, using the pier in a real-world combat zone likely helped prove its use to the Pentagon, argued Keith Robbins, a retired Army officer who oversaw the JLOTS program for U.S. Transportation Command before his retirement in 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
JLOTS is, in essence, a set of metal pieces that can be assembled in multiple ways. It\u2019s meant for calmer waters than the eastern Mediterranean Sea, Robbins said, but there were few better options for the mission itself: quickly shuttling tons of aid onshore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cJLOTS is the perfect capability to handle that, but it has to be put in the right place in order for it to be successful,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that JLOTS has made its debut in a combat zone, Robbins hopes it will convince the Pentagon to continue funding it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTen, 15 years ago, when I was doing it, the higher-ups didn\u2019t really understand what the capability was,\u201d he said. \u201cI would hope that this has been a great illustration of how valuable this capability can be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nA DODIG report found the Gaza pier mission resulted in 62 injuries to U.S. personnel and at least $31 million in equipment damage, among other shortfalls. (MC1 Jordan Kirk Johnson\/U.S. Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u2018The needs are staggering\u2019<\/h2>\n\n\n\n In their briefing last week, CENCTOM deputy commander Cooper and an official from USAID argued the pier hadn\u2019t only finished its mission \u2014 it was also no longer necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The maritime supply route was now moving from off the 25-mile Gazan coast to Ashdod, Israel, where aid will enter the strip via trucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the U.S. and humanitarian groups have said for months, there is no substitute for these land crossings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe needs are staggering and continue to grow,\u201d said Solani Korde, a USAID official, briefing alongside Cooper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From the start, U.S. officials stressed that the pier was \u201ctemporary.\u201d In other words, the U.S. was not committing to an indefinite mission attached to Gaza, and it wasn\u2019t suggesting this path could replace others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cA maritime route is not a zero-sum discussion,\u201d said Chris Hyslop, a former U.N. official who now works with Fogbow, a humanitarian advisory group that assisted the pier\u2019s mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\nAn aerial photo of the U.S. military-built Gaza aid pier after it was stabbed into the beach on May 16. (DOD)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nBut even when aid crosses into Gaza it has been extremely hard to deliver. Roads are damaged. Swathes of territory are dangerous. And the actors involved \u2014 from Egypt to Israel to Hamas to other groups in Gaza \u2014 often don\u2019t have reason to distribute aid quickly, whether due to cronyism, domestic politics or the terrorist group\u2019s total-war strategy, said Cook, the analyst at CFR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat is really, chiefly, the obstacle to ensuring that the innocent people of Gaza get the lifesaving food, water, medicine that they need,\u201d National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in a July briefing. \u201cIt\u2019s distribution within as opposed to distribution from without.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
No pier or new land crossing can solve that problem. But while the pier\u2019s mission may be over, some involved don\u2019t think the maritime route should close.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mick Mulroy, a former Pentagon Middle East official who also works at Fogbow, the aid group, said the pier was a proof of concept, despite its limitations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI think it needs to be continued because quite frankly, the mechanism in Cyprus [where aid was sorted] and the aid delivery zone is already established,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t put something in its place that will be for naught.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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