{"id":151020,"date":"2023-12-20T06:47:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T11:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=151020"},"modified":"2023-12-20T06:47:34","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T11:47:34","slug":"secdef-announces-operation-prosperity-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=151020","title":{"rendered":"SECDEF Announces Operation Prosperity Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-151021 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ayatollahsmiling-300x217.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ayatollahsmiling-300x217.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ayatollahsmiling-460x333.png 460w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/ayatollahsmiling.png 725w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;Cool name, Bro.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Pentagon announces international mission to counter attacks in Red Sea<\/h3>\n<p><strong>By Tara Copp and Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MANAMA, Bahrain \u2014 The U.S. and a host of other nations are creating a new force to protect ships transiting the Red Sea that have come under attack by drones and ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced early Tuesday in Bahrain.<\/p>\n<p>The seriousness of the attacks, several of which have damaged the vessels, has led multiple shipping companies to order their ships to hold in place and not enter the Bab el-Mandeb Strait until the security situation can be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. military\u2019s Central Command reported two more of the attacks on commercial vessels Monday. A strike by attack drone and ballistic missile hit a tanker off Yemen, at roughly the same time a cargo ship reported an explosive detonating in the water near them, the military said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an international challenge that demands collective action,\u201d Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in statement released just after midnight in Bahrain. \u201cTherefore today I am announcing the establishment of Operation Prosperity Guardian, an important new multinational security initiative.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2023\/12\/18\/pentagon-announces-international-mission-to-counter-attacks-in-red-sea\/\">Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article states the newest multinational effort will operate with the existing Combined Task Force 153, created in 2022 to improve maritime security in the area and clearly not doing anything remotely like that. I sense another opportunity to excel on the international stage for our current Administration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Cool name, Bro.&#8221; Pentagon announces international mission to counter attacks in Red Sea By Tara Copp &hellip; <a title=\"SECDEF Announces Operation Prosperity Guardian\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=151020\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SECDEF Announces Operation Prosperity Guardian<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":151021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,9,691],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-pentagon","category-foreign-policy","category-good-idea-fairy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151020","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/151021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}