{"id":281847,"date":"2019-07-12T05:46:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T05:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=281847"},"modified":"2019-07-12T05:54:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T05:54:11","slug":"us-allies-planning-naval-escort-for-gulf-tankers-pentagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-allies-planning-naval-escort-for-gulf-tankers-pentagon\/","title":{"rendered":"US, allies planning naval escort for Gulf tankers: Pentagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US and its allies are discussing plans to provide naval escorts for oil tankers through the Gulf, a top US general said on Thursday after Iranian military vessels menaced a British tanker.<\/p>\n<p>General Mark Milley, nominated to become the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate hearing that the US has a \u201ccrucial role\u201d in enforcing freedom of navigation in the Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>He said the US was attempting to put together a coalition \u201cin terms of providing military escort, naval escort to commercial shipping,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that that will be developing over the next couple weeks.\u201d Milley, currently chief of staff of the army, confirmed less specific remarks by current Joint Chiefs Chairman General Joseph Dunford earlier this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US and its allies are discussing plans to provide naval escorts for oil tankers through the Gulf, a top US general said on Thursday after Iranian military vessels menaced a British tanker. General Mark Milley, nominated to become the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate hearing that the US has a \u201ccrucial role\u201d in enforcing freedom of navigation in the Gulf. He said the US was attempting to put together a coalition \u201cin terms of providing military escort, naval escort to commercial shipping,\u201d he said. \u201cI think that that will be developing over the next [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}