{"id":4091,"date":"2018-08-29T23:29:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T23:29:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2018-08-29T23:29:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T23:29:39","slug":"russian-announces-massive-military-exercise-that-will-involve-chinese-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/08\/29\/russian-announces-massive-military-exercise-that-will-involve-chinese-troops\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSSIAN ANNOUNCES MASSIVE MILITARY EXERCISE THAT WILL INVOLVE CHINESE TROOPS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/RUSSIAN-ARMY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1684\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/RUSSIAN-ARMY-1024x659.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/RUSSIAN-ARMY-1024x659.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/RUSSIAN-ARMY-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/RUSSIAN-ARMY-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/RUSSIAN-ARMY-560x360.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/RUSSIAN-ARMY-260x167.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/RUSSIAN-ARMY-160x103.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2017\/03\/RUSSIAN-ARMY.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Defence Blog<\/p>\n<p>Russian Defense Minister Army Sergei Shoigu announced that Russia will hold a largest military exercise in September.<\/p>\n<p>According to the TASS news agency, About 300,000 troops and more than 1,000 aircraft are set to take part in Russian massive military exercise that will also involve the Chinese and Mongolian armies.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise, called Vostok-2018 (East-2018), will be held on September 11-15 and will be the largest event of the troops\u2019 combat training.<\/p>\n<p>According to the defense minister, Russia has not held maneuvers comparable by their scope with the upcoming military drills since 1981.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some ways, they resemble the Zapad-81 drills but in other ways they are, perhaps, even larger. Over 1,000 aircraft, almost 300,000 servicemen at almost all the training ranges of the Central and Eastern Military Districts and, naturally, the Pacific and Northern Fleets and the Airborne Force will be fully employed,\u201d the defense minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/army\/russia-announces-massive-military-exercise-will-also-involve-chinese-army.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Defence Blog Russian Defense Minister Army Sergei Shoigu announced that Russia will hold a largest military exercise in September. According to the TASS news agency, About 300,000 troops and more than 1,000 aircraft are set to take part in Russian massive military exercise that will also involve the Chinese and Mongolian armies. The exercise,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/08\/29\/russian-announces-massive-military-exercise-that-will-involve-chinese-troops\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RUSSIAN ANNOUNCES MASSIVE MILITARY EXERCISE THAT WILL INVOLVE CHINESE TROOPS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091","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=4091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4091\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}