{"id":4487,"date":"2018-11-25T20:28:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T20:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4487"},"modified":"2018-11-25T20:28:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T20:28:47","slug":"russia-poses-a-bigger-threat-than-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/11\/25\/russia-poses-a-bigger-threat-than-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSSIA POSES A BIGGER THREAT THAN ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/Russian-military-drill.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1081\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/Russian-military-drill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/Russian-military-drill.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/Russian-military-drill-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/Russian-military-drill-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/Russian-military-drill-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2016\/08\/Russian-military-drill-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: News Week<\/p>\n<p>By Tom Porter<\/p>\n<p>Russia poses a greater threat to U.K. security than the militant groups Islamic State and al Qaeda, warned the new commander of the British Army.<\/p>\n<p>General Mark Carleton-Smith was appointed chief of the U.K\u2019s general staff in June\u2014and in his first interview since the appointment had a stark warning about Russia\u2019s military capacity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia today indisputably represents a far greater threat to our national security than Islamic extremist threats such as al-Qaeda and Isil,\u201d he told British daily The Daily Telegraph, using one of the acronyms for the militant group known as the Islamic State.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRussia has demonstrated that it is prepared to use military force to secure and expand its own national interests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/russia-poses-bigger-threat-isis-warns-uk-military-chief-1229720?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: News Week By Tom Porter Russia poses a greater threat to U.K. security than the militant groups Islamic State and al Qaeda, warned the new commander of the British Army. General Mark Carleton-Smith was appointed chief of the U.K\u2019s general staff in June\u2014and in his first interview since the appointment had a stark warning&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/11\/25\/russia-poses-a-bigger-threat-than-isis\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RUSSIA POSES A BIGGER THREAT THAN ISIS<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1081,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conflict","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487","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=4487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4488,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4487\/revisions\/4488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}