{"id":4594,"date":"2018-12-11T23:05:19","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T23:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4594"},"modified":"2018-12-11T23:05:19","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T23:05:19","slug":"greek-and-us-sof-train-for-contingencies-on-the-island-of-crete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/11\/greek-and-us-sof-train-for-contingencies-on-the-island-of-crete\/","title":{"rendered":"GREEK AND US SOF TRAIN FOR CONTINGENCIES ON THE ISLAND OF CRETE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/JAKAL-STONE.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4596\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/JAKAL-STONE-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/JAKAL-STONE-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/JAKAL-STONE-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/JAKAL-STONE-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/JAKAL-STONE-560x373.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/JAKAL-STONE-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/JAKAL-STONE-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/JAKAL-STONE.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: The New Rep<\/p>\n<p>By Stavros Atlamazoglou \u00b7<\/p>\n<p>Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists have stormed a cruise ship full of unaware tourists somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean. The U.S. Special Operations Command Europe has been alerted and swiftly deploys its SOF units to Greece. There, the American commandos link up with their Greek counterparts and prepare to storm the vessel.<\/p>\n<p>This is just one of the many scenarios that U.S. and Greek SOF units will have to deal with during Jackal Stone 18, SOCEUR\u2019s annual readiness exercise. The exercise will take place on the island of Crete.<\/p>\n<p>But there is some drama \u2014 Greeks invented the concept, after all, and it would be unfitting if it was absent from the event \u2014 behind the organisation of the exercise. The Greek military\u2019s Joint Special Operations Command (DEE) was supposed to co-organise Jackal Stone 18 in conjunction with SOCEUR.<\/p>\n<p>The Greek Interior Ministry, however, argued that since the exercise will have a distinct counter-terrorism character, it is supposed to fall under the Hellenic Police\u2019s jurisdiction (as in the U.S., domestic emergencies are dealt by the law enforcement and not the military).<\/p>\n<p>There was considerable backlash from the Greek Ministry of Defence. In the end, however, the Interior Ministry\u2019s argument prevailed, and SOCEUR planners had to plan and coordinate with the Hellenic Police. Nonetheless, Greek military SOF units will be participating in the event but in a more limited role.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/thenewsrep.com\/111135\/isis-terrorists-have-just-hijacked-a-cruise-ship-greek-and-us-sof-train-for-contingencies\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The New Rep By Stavros Atlamazoglou \u00b7 Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists have stormed a cruise ship full of unaware tourists somewhere in the Eastern Mediterranean. The U.S. Special Operations Command Europe has been alerted and swiftly deploys its SOF units to Greece. There, the American commandos link up with their Greek counterparts and prepare&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/11\/greek-and-us-sof-train-for-contingencies-on-the-island-of-crete\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">GREEK AND US SOF TRAIN FOR CONTINGENCIES ON THE ISLAND OF CRETE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4594","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\/4594","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=4594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4597,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4594\/revisions\/4597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}