{"id":525,"date":"2015-11-04T14:45:04","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T14:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=525"},"modified":"2015-11-04T14:45:04","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T14:45:04","slug":"the-construction-of-britains-new-military-base-in-bahrain-has-begun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2015\/11\/04\/the-construction-of-britains-new-military-base-in-bahrain-has-begun\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CONSTRUCTION OF BRITAIN\u2019S NEW MILITARY BASE IN BAHRAIN HAS BEGUN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/Phillip-Hammond-Bahrain1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-526\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/Phillip-Hammond-Bahrain1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Phillip-Hammond-Bahrain1\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/Phillip-Hammond-Bahrain1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/Phillip-Hammond-Bahrain1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/Phillip-Hammond-Bahrain1-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/Phillip-Hammond-Bahrain1-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/Phillip-Hammond-Bahrain1-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/11\/Phillip-Hammond-Bahrain1.jpg 1368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday Britain started constructing its first permanent military base in the Middle East since 1971. The new Royal Navy base will be in located in the Port of Mina Salman in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony marking the start of construction was attended by British Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond and Bahraini Foreign Minister, Sheikh Khalid Al-Khalifa.<\/p>\n<p>The construction of the new military base forms part of an agreement that the two countries reached last year in order to improve their cooperation and to deal with security threats in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>According to the British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon the new base in Bahrain, \u201cwill enable Britain to send more and larger ships to reinforce stability in the Gulf\u201d, while the Bahraini Foreign Minister, Sheikh Khalid Al-Khalifa, said that the construction of the new base was expected to \u201cstrengthen the partnership between the two countries and enable the forces to carry out their duties effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cost of the construction of the new base is going to be \u00a315 million and it should be completed next year. Bahrain is already home to the US Navy\u2019s Fifth Fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Image Sourced: The Independent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday Britain started constructing its first permanent military base in the Middle East since 1971. The new Royal Navy base will be in located in the Port of Mina Salman in Bahrain. The ceremony marking the start of construction was attended by British Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond and Bahraini Foreign Minister, Sheikh Khalid Al-Khalifa.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2015\/11\/04\/the-construction-of-britains-new-military-base-in-bahrain-has-begun\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">THE CONSTRUCTION OF BRITAIN\u2019S NEW MILITARY BASE IN BAHRAIN HAS BEGUN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[250,254,255,33,253,252,256,43,251,47],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","tag-bahraini-foreign-minister","tag-british-defense-secretary-michael-fallon","tag-british-foreign-secretary","tag-dcss-news","tag-fifth-fleet","tag-middle-east","tag-philip-hammond","tag-royal-navy","tag-sheikh-khalid-al-khalifa","tag-us-navy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","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=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}