{"id":86771,"date":"2019-05-06T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=86771"},"modified":"2019-05-06T07:10:23","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T11:10:23","slug":"bird-farm-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86771","title":{"rendered":"Bird Farm On the Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_80197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80197\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-80197 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Redtail-hawk-and-redwing-2009-Web-view-copy-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Redtail-hawk-and-redwing-2009-Web-view-copy-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Redtail-hawk-and-redwing-2009-Web-view-copy.jpg 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Ex-PH2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A White House decision to dispatch an aircraft carrier and other military resources to send a message to Iran followed \u201cclear indications\u201d that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2019\/04\/23\/iranian-parliament-labels-entire-us-military-as-terrorist\/\">Iranian and Iranian proxy forces<\/a>\u00a0were preparing to possibly attack U.S. forces in the region, a defense official told the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information, said the Pentagon approved the deployments and that U.S. forces at sea and on land were thought to be the potential targets. The official declined to be more specific.<\/p>\n<p>White House national security adviser John Bolton said in a statement Sunday night that the U.S. is deploying the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a bomber task force to the U.S. Central Command region, an area that includes the Middle East. \u2013 Military Times article<\/p>\n<p>The full story is here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2019\/05\/06\/lincoln-carrier-strike-group-other-resources-dispatched-to-middle-east-due-to-possible-attack-on-us-forces-source-says\/\">https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2019\/05\/06\/lincoln-carrier-strike-group-other-resources-dispatched-to-middle-east-due-to-possible-attack-on-us-forces-source-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article indicates that both SecState Pompeo and WH Security Advisor Bolton have\u00a0 spoken recently about Iran&#8217;s recent efforts to poke the Eagle whenever possible.\u00a0 Pres. Trump&#8217;s sanctions against China and others for buying Iranian oil have been tightened recently.<\/p>\n<p>As we have no ships in the Persian Gulf now, this precautionary move seems to be just that. The Cold War may have ended, but that left a gap that Iran seems to want to fill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 A White House decision to dispatch an aircraft carrier and other military resources to &hellip; <a title=\"Bird Farm On the Move\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=86771\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bird Farm On the Move<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,9,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-foreign-policy","category-iran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86771","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\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86772,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86771\/revisions\/86772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}