国际战略研究所（IISS）的一项研究质疑海湾国家过度依赖美国支持以及“过度依赖昂贵的高端系统”。根据该研究所的研究，鉴于其经济遭受的损害以及面对伊朗攻击时美国基地的持续价值存疑，海湾国家将不得不重新配置其万亿美元规模的国防力量。
IISS study questions overreliance on American support and ‘overdependence on expensive, high-end systems’ Gulf states are going to have to reconfigure their trillion-dollar defences given the damage inflicted on their economies and the questionable continued value of US bases in the face of Iranian attack, according to a study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
报告称，在4月8日停火前几周，12个地区国家（绝大多数位于海湾地区）面临了4670架伊朗单程攻击无人机和1400多枚弹道导弹。近半数袭击瞄准阿拉伯联合酋长国。尽管绝大多数袭击被拦截，但报告引用的一项对能源基础设施损失的估算高达580亿美元（约合430亿英镑）。
The report says that in the weeks before the 8 April ceasefire, 12 regional states, overwhelmingly in the Gulf, faced 4,670 Iranian one-way attack drones and more than 1,400 ballistic missiles. Nearly half were aimed at the United Arab Emirates. Although the vast majority were repelled, one estimate of the damage to energy infrastructure cited by the report is put as high as $58bn (£43bn).