{"id":3097,"date":"2018-02-22T22:22:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T22:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3097"},"modified":"2018-02-22T22:22:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T22:22:53","slug":"two-us-navy-arleigh-burke-class-destroyers-enter-black-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/22\/two-us-navy-arleigh-burke-class-destroyers-enter-black-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"TWO US NAVY ARLEIGH-BURKE CLASS DESTROYERS ENTER BLACK SEA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/USS_Ross_DDG-71.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3098\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/USS_Ross_DDG-71-1024x623.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/USS_Ross_DDG-71-1024x623.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/USS_Ross_DDG-71-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/USS_Ross_DDG-71-768x467.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/USS_Ross_DDG-71-560x341.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/USS_Ross_DDG-71-260x158.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/USS_Ross_DDG-71-160x97.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/02\/USS_Ross_DDG-71.jpg 1919w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Asia Times<\/p>\n<p>Two US Navy guided missile destroyers passed through the Bosporus Strait and entered the Black Sea bordering Russia on Friday in what was described as a \u201cproactive\u201d presence mission, according to USNI News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur decision to have two ships simultaneously operate in the Black Sea is proactive, not reactive,\u201d US 6th Fleet commander Vice Adm. Christopher Grady said in a statement. \u201cWe operate at the tempo and timing of our choosing in this strategically important region. By nature, ships are flexible, mobile forces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/article\/2-us-navy-guided-missile-destroyers-enter-black-sea\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Asia Times Two US Navy guided missile destroyers passed through the Bosporus Strait and entered the Black Sea bordering Russia on Friday in what was described as a \u201cproactive\u201d presence mission, according to USNI News. \u201cOur decision to have two ships simultaneously operate in the Black Sea is proactive, not reactive,\u201d US 6th Fleet&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/02\/22\/two-us-navy-arleigh-burke-class-destroyers-enter-black-sea\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TWO US NAVY ARLEIGH-BURKE CLASS DESTROYERS ENTER BLACK SEA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[753,47],"class_list":["post-3097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-black-sea","tag-us-navy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3099,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3097\/revisions\/3099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}