{"id":62326,"date":"2015-10-15T07:54:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T11:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62326"},"modified":"2015-10-14T17:15:36","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T21:15:36","slug":"cubans-deploy-to-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62326","title":{"rendered":"Cubans deploy to Syria?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2015\/10\/14\/cuban-military-forces-deployed-to-syria-to-operate-russian-tanks-say-sources\/?intcmp=hpbt1\">Fox News<\/a> reports that some Arabs are claiming that they spotted Cuban soldiers in Syria to assist the Assad government and the Russians fighting against the rebels in the civil war there;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An Arab military officer at the Damascus airport reportedly witnessed two Russian planes arrive there with Cuban military personnel on board. When the officer questioned the Cubans, they told him they were there to assist Assad because they are experts at operating Russian tanks, according to Jaime Suchlicki, the institute&#8217;s executive director.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t surprise me,&#8221; Suchlicki told FoxNews.com, noting Russia&#8217;s long history of supplying military equipment to Cuba as well as Cuba&#8217;s assistance in Soviet-led operations in Africa the 1970&#8217;s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Cubans haven&#8217;t fought in a war since their incursions in Africa and their limited engagements in South and Central America in the mid-80s so I don&#8217;t why the Russians would want them except for extra bodies. Of course, they did evict the Spanish with our help in 1898, so if they have veterans of that war, they&#8217;d come in handy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cuba&#8217;s military is ranked the world&#8217;s 110th most powerful by the site globalfirepower.com. While small, the Cuban military is &#8220;very well-trained,&#8221; according to Suchlicki, who said their presence in Syria is a &#8220;departure from what the U.S. expected.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, the Cubans will be designated as the Russian&#8217;s 71st Provincial Self-Propelled Sand Bag Brigade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News reports that some Arabs are claiming that they spotted Cuban soldiers in Syria to &hellip; <a title=\"Cubans deploy to Syria?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62326\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cubans deploy to Syria?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62326","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}