{"id":3342,"date":"2018-04-16T22:33:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T22:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=3342"},"modified":"2018-04-16T22:33:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T22:33:08","slug":"saudi-arabia-hosts-multi-nation-military-drills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/16\/saudi-arabia-hosts-multi-nation-military-drills\/","title":{"rendered":"SAUDI ARABIA HOSTS MULTI-NATION MILITARY DRILLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/02\/saudi-arabia-troops-army.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-741\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/02\/saudi-arabia-troops-army-1024x675.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/02\/saudi-arabia-troops-army-1024x675.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/02\/saudi-arabia-troops-army-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/02\/saudi-arabia-troops-army-560x369.png 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/02\/saudi-arabia-troops-army-260x171.png 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/02\/saudi-arabia-troops-army-160x106.png 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/02\/saudi-arabia-troops-army.png 1222w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sourced: Shephard Media<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia concluded a month-long military exercise involving more than 24 nations on 16 April, a day after hosting an Arab summit that slammed what it called Iran&#8217;s growing interference in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise on Saudi Arabia&#8217;s east coast, dubbed Gulf Shield-1, involved combat search and rescue drills as well as naval warfare and air operations, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi King Salman presided over the closing ceremony of the drills, which he said highlighted a \u2018unified alliance\u2019 between over 24 countries to combat military threats.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.shephardmedia.com\/news\/defence-notes\/saudi-arabia-hosts-multi-nation-military-drills\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sourced: Shephard Media Saudi Arabia concluded a month-long military exercise involving more than 24 nations on 16 April, a day after hosting an Arab summit that slammed what it called Iran&#8217;s growing interference in the region. The exercise on Saudi Arabia&#8217;s east coast, dubbed Gulf Shield-1, involved combat search and rescue drills as well as&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/04\/16\/saudi-arabia-hosts-multi-nation-military-drills\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SAUDI ARABIA HOSTS MULTI-NATION MILITARY DRILLS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[171],"class_list":["post-3342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-saudi-arabia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342","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=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3343,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions\/3343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}