{"id":147053,"date":"2023-09-10T08:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=147053"},"modified":"2023-09-09T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T15:44:40","slug":"the-u-s-military-to-conduct-exercises-with-the-armenian-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=147053","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. military to conduct exercises with the Armenian military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Military-Intelligence.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-110565\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Military-Intelligence-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Military-Intelligence-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Military-Intelligence-441x333.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Military-Intelligence-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Military-Intelligence.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military will have 85 soldiers participating in exercises with 175 Armenian soldiers. The U.S. military is helping to prepare the Armenian military to participate in peacekeeping operations. Russia appears to be concerned about this effort.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><b>From Fox News:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Col. Martin O&#8217;Donnell, spokesman for the U.S. command, said the exercise &#8220;is a vital opportunity for our soldiers from our two nations to build new relationships at the tactical level and to increase interoperability for peacekeeping operations.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. troops will include soldiers from the 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division and soldiers from the Kansas National Guard. That Guard unit has had a state partnership with Armenia since 2003.<\/p>\n<p>Landlocked Armenia has close military ties with Russia, including hosting a Russian military base and participating in the Moscow-led Collective Security Treaty Organization alliance.<\/p>\n<p>However, Armenia has become increasingly disillusioned with Russia since the 2020 war with Azerbaijan. The armistice that ended the war called for a Russian peacekeeping force to ensure passage on the road leading from Armenia to the Nagorno-Karabakh ethnic Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan.<\/p>\n<p>But Azerbaijan has blocked that road, called the Lachin Corridor, since late December and Armenia repeatedly has complained that Russian peacekeepers are doing nothing to open it. The road&#8217;s blockage has led to significant food shortages in Nagorno-Karabakh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fox News additional information <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/armenia-conduct-military-exercises-us-amid-growing-tensions-russia\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military will have 85 soldiers participating in exercises with 175 Armenian soldiers. The U.S. &hellip; <a title=\"The U.S. military to conduct exercises with the Armenian military\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=147053\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The U.S. military to conduct exercises with the Armenian military<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-affairs","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}