{"id":3727,"date":"2011-10-31T19:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T02:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3727"},"modified":"2011-10-31T19:08:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T02:08:12","slug":"us-congress-cut-weapons-off-to-gcc-and-we-might-start-thinking-your-awake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3727","title":{"rendered":"US Congress Cut Weapons Off to GCC and we might start thinking your awake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The US responds to &#8220;the Arab spring&#8221;: here is a &#8220;security architecture&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n30 October, 2011  Angry Arab News<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With an eye on the threat of a belligerent Iran, the administration is also seeking to expand military ties with the six nations in the Gulf Cooperation Council \u2014 Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. While the United States has close bilateral military relationships with each, the administration and the military are trying to foster a new \u201csecurity architecture\u201d for the Persian Gulf that would integrate air and naval patrols and missile defense.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBack to the future\u201d is how Maj. Gen. Karl R. Horst, Central Command\u2019s chief of staff, described planning for a new posture in the Gulf. He said the command was focusing on smaller but highly capable deployments and training partnerships with regional militaries. \u201cWe are kind of thinking of going back to the way it was before we had a big \u2018boots on the ground\u2019 presence,\u201d General Horst said. \u201cI think it is healthy. I think it is efficient. I think it is practical.\u201d (thanks Amer) <a href=\"http:\/\/angryarab.net\/2011\/10\/30\/the-us-responds-to-the-arab-spring-here-is-a-security-architecture\/\"> &#8230;source<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D3727&amp;text=US+Congress+Cut+Weapons+Off+to+GCC+and+we+might+start+thinking+your+awake&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US responds to &#8220;the Arab spring&#8221;: here is a &#8220;security architecture&#8221; 30 October, 2011 Angry Arab News &#8220;With an eye on the threat of a belligerent Iran, the administration is also seeking to expand military ties with the six nations in the Gulf Cooperation Council \u2014 Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=3727#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[1996],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3728,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3727\/revisions\/3728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}