{"id":4669,"date":"2018-12-31T00:55:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T00:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4669"},"modified":"2018-12-31T00:55:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T00:55:25","slug":"uk-plans-to-build-2-new-military-bases-in-caribbean-and-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/31\/uk-plans-to-build-2-new-military-bases-in-caribbean-and-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"UK PLANS TO BUILD 2 NEW MILITARY BASES IN CARIBBEAN AND ASIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/BRITISH-ARMY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4670\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/BRITISH-ARMY-1024x579.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/BRITISH-ARMY-1024x579.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/BRITISH-ARMY-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/BRITISH-ARMY-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/BRITISH-ARMY-560x317.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/BRITISH-ARMY-260x147.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/BRITISH-ARMY-160x91.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/12\/BRITISH-ARMY.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Defence Blog<\/p>\n<p>U.K. Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson announced plans to build two new military bases in the Caribbean and southeast Asia, according to the Sunday Telegraph.<\/p>\n<p>Citing an interview with Gavin Williamson, the Sunday Telegraph reported that the plans are part of an effort to make the U.K. \u201ca true global player\u201d by increasing the country\u2019s role on the international stage after it leaves the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>It also marks a shift from the so-called 1968 East of Suez strategy in which the U.K. withdrew from military bases in southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf, the minister told the paper.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/defence-blog.com\/army\/u-k-plans-to-build-two-new-military-bases-in-caribbean-and-asia.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Defence Blog U.K. Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson announced plans to build two new military bases in the Caribbean and southeast Asia, according to the Sunday Telegraph. Citing an interview with Gavin Williamson, the Sunday Telegraph reported that the plans are part of an effort to make the U.K. \u201ca true global player\u201d by increasing&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/12\/31\/uk-plans-to-build-2-new-military-bases-in-caribbean-and-asia\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK PLANS TO BUILD 2 NEW MILITARY BASES IN CARIBBEAN AND ASIA<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4669","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\/4669","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=4669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4671,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4669\/revisions\/4671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}