{"id":622770,"date":"2023-12-16T09:51:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T04:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=622770"},"modified":"2023-12-16T10:23:36","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T04:53:36","slug":"pentagon-orders-us-aircraft-carrier-to-remain-in-mediterranean-near-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pentagon-orders-us-aircraft-carrier-to-remain-in-mediterranean-near-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon orders US aircraft carrier to remain in Mediterranean near Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier and one other warship to remain in the Mediterranean Sea for several more weeks to maintain a two-carrier presence near Israel as its war with Hamas grinds on, US officials said. <\/p>\n<p>It would be the third time the Ford&#8217;s deployment has been extended, underscoring the continued concerns about volatility in the region during Israel&#8217;s war in Gaza. The US has two aircraft carriers in the region, a rarity in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered the USS Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier and one other warship to remain in the Mediterranean Sea for several more weeks to maintain a two-carrier presence near Israel as its war with Hamas grinds on, US officials said. It would be the third time the Ford&#8217;s deployment has been extended, underscoring the continued concerns about volatility in the region during Israel&#8217;s war in Gaza. The US has two aircraft carriers in the region, a rarity in recent years.<\/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":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-622770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622770","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=622770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}