{"id":88373,"date":"2019-06-26T11:45:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T15:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=88373"},"modified":"2019-06-26T11:32:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T15:32:08","slug":"the-long-arm-of-fustercluck-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88373","title":{"rendered":"The Long Arm of Fustercluck 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_88207\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-88207\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RQ-4-Global-Hawk-Staff-SGT-Ramon-Adelan-US-Air-Force-and-AP-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RQ-4-Global-Hawk-Staff-SGT-Ramon-Adelan-US-Air-Force-and-AP-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RQ-4-Global-Hawk-Staff-SGT-Ramon-Adelan-US-Air-Force-and-AP-768x513.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RQ-4-Global-Hawk-Staff-SGT-Ramon-Adelan-US-Air-Force-and-AP-500x333.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/RQ-4-Global-Hawk-Staff-SGT-Ramon-Adelan-US-Air-Force-and-AP.jpeg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-88207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Airmen work on an RQ-4 Global Hawk. The Iranians shot one of these down today. (Ramon Adelan\/U.S. Air Force\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Remember that pallet of cash sent to the Iranian government a while back by the Obama administration? And while you&#8217;re jiggling your memory banks into coughing up that annoying item, before that, there was the capture, before that, of a 5th Fleet US Navy riverine boat and crew in the Persian Gulf. Remember that one?<\/p>\n<p>Well, below is a link to the full story with all its flaws and annoyances, including poor training, lack of maintenance of equipment, lack of replacement of broken equipment, not properly preparing to enter a contested area with proper armaments and ammunition, etc., etc., etc. The list is not exactly endless, but it is relevant to what is going on now in the Persian Gulf, most recently with that attempt to destroy a Kuwaiti oil tanker and the shoot-down of a US military drone. Iran&#8217;s government is currently attempting to claim the entire Persian Gulf as its turf, which is a very real threat to shipping in that area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2019\/06\/25\/trump-keeps-talking-about-the-last-military-standoff-with-iran-heres-what-really-happened\/\">https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2019\/06\/25\/trump-keeps-talking-about-the-last-military-standoff-with-iran-heres-what-really-happened\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good read, and yes, the article is long and detailed but it explains a lot about what is going on now.<\/p>\n<p>Trump withheld a strike against Iran over the drone shootdown.\u00a0 Iran is hinting at more serious stuff, poking the wolf, as it were.\u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-mideast-iran-usa\/trump-says-not-talking-boots-on-the-ground-if-action-taken-against-iran-idUSKCN1TR1Z4\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-mideast-iran-usa\/trump-says-not-talking-boots-on-the-ground-if-action-taken-against-iran-idUSKCN1TR1Z4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This may have something to do with China&#8217;s intent to expand its domination of South Asia.<\/p>\n<p>Keep your eyes and ears open. It ain&#8217;t over yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember that pallet of cash sent to the Iranian government a while back by the Obama &hellip; <a title=\"The Long Arm of Fustercluck 2015\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=88373\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Long Arm of Fustercluck 2015<\/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":[308,84,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iran","category-military-issues","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88373","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=88373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88374,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88373\/revisions\/88374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}