The U.S. military spent years watching adversaries circle closer. Warnings piled up. Demonstrations showed exactly how commercial data could expose troops. Yet action lagged. Now Central Command confirms the threat has arrived. In April, U.S. Central Command told Congress it had received multiple threat reports of adversaries exploiting commercial location data to target or surveil American personnel in theater. The disclosure, shared by Sen. Ron Wyden with Reuters , marks the first official Pentagon acknowledgment that forces in active conflict zones face this specific risk. Centcom’s area covers the Gulf, where U.S. troops confront Iranian forces. The letter warned that such data reveals where troops gather and their patterns of life. Adversaries can exploit that for missile strikes, drone attacks, roadside bombs or counterintelligence. But the military knew far earlier.…