{"id":11481,"date":"2014-09-18T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T13:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=11481"},"modified":"2014-09-17T23:48:04","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T03:48:04","slug":"how-much-can-the-world-rely-on-gulf-states-in-the-fight-against-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2014\/how-much-can-the-world-rely-on-gulf-states-in-the-fight-against-isis\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Can The World Rely On Gulf States In The Fight Against IS(IS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/091814_0331_HowMuchCanT1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whelp, back to Iraq we go. This time with a touch more Gulf support. Bobby Ghosh took a look at how useful Arab militaries will actually be in the fight against the group formerly known as ISIS:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The highest ranking military among the Gulf States belongs to Saudi Arabia which, somewhat surprisingly, is roughly as good as the Syrian military.<\/li>\n<li>Given that Syria, too, has struggled against ISIS, it&#8217;s unclear how effective Saudi Arabia will be against the terrorist group.<\/li>\n<li>While other countries in the region spend a lot on their militaries, they have very little combat experience, making their use questionable.<\/li>\n<li>This is largely because the purpose of the militaries in the oil soaked region isn&#8217;t to fight wars \u2013 it is to protect the monarchy and other sections of the elite.<\/li>\n<li>The country with the most fighting experience is Yemen which has been combating its own urgency. It is also the poorest Gulf country.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the relative military prowess of various Gulf States, as well as how Middle Eastern states outside the Gulf will fare in the return to Iraq over <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/265286\/why-arab-militaries-would-not-bring-much-firepower-to-the-coalition-against-isil\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/265286\/why-arab-militaries-would-not-bring-much-firepower-to-the-coalition-against-isil\/\">Quartz<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whelp, back to Iraq we go. This time with a touch more Gulf support. Bobby Ghosh took a look at how useful Arab militaries will actually be in the fight against the group formerly known as ISIS: The highest ranking military among the Gulf States belongs to Saudi Arabia which, somewhat surprisingly, is roughly as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/091814_0331_HowMuchCanT1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11483,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11481\/revisions\/11483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}