{"id":10578,"date":"2016-12-16T19:28:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T19:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/?p=10578"},"modified":"2016-12-16T19:29:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T19:29:37","slug":"us-report-saudi-army-paper-tiger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/us-report-saudi-army-paper-tiger\/","title":{"rendered":"US Report: Saudi Army Paper Tiger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>An American expert described the Saudi army, which is considered the best-equipped military in the world, as a paper tiger that disappointed its weapon suppliers, including mainly the United States.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtoninstitute.org\/experts\/view\/henderson-simon\" target=\"_blank\">Simon Henderson<\/a>, a director of the Gulf and Energy Policy Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, mentioned an assessment for the performance of the Saudi army.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe performance of the Saudi air force has been very weak, and the Saudi ground forces have failed to protect the Kingdom\u2019s southern border.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The report mentioned that on December 13, U.S. officials announced that the sale of about 16,000 guided munition kits to Saudi Arabia would be blocked due to concerns that the kingdom\u2019s poorly targeted airstrikes were causing too many civilian casualties in Yemen.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis apparently counterintuitive measure \u2014 such kits enable bombs to hit targets more accurately \u2014 follows a freeze on cluster bomb sales earlier this year, as well as warnings to Riyadh that U.S. aid is not a blank check.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Obama administration\u2019s frustration with its limited options for ending the intractable conflict was reflected in the media\u2019s contradictory reporting of the development: the Washington Post headline read, \u2018With Small Changes, U.S. Maintains Military Aid to Saudi Arabia Despite Rebukes Over Yemen Carnage,\u2019 while the New York Times declared \u2018U.S. Blocks Arms Sale to Saudi Arabia Amid Concerns Over Yemen War.&#8217;\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/english.almanar.com.lb\/136860\" target=\"_blank\">al-Manar<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American expert described the Saudi army, which is considered the best-equipped military in the world, as a paper tiger that disappointed its weapon suppliers, including mainly the United States. Simon Henderson, a director of the Gulf and Energy Policy Program at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, mentioned an assessment for the performance &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1344,1342,1343],"class_list":["post-10578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-miscellaneous","tag-incompetant","tag-ineffectual","tag-useless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10580,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10578\/revisions\/10580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilayah.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}