{"id":17486,"date":"2016-02-08T13:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T18:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17486"},"modified":"2016-02-08T13:00:37","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T18:00:37","slug":"war-games-in-middle-east-could-prepare-uk-for-potential-russian-war-with-nato-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17486","title":{"rendered":"War games in Middle East could prepare UK for \u2018potential\u2019 Russian war with NATO \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"article__heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/331695-uk-war-games-war-russia\/\" target=\"_blank\">War games in Middle East could prepare UK for \u2018potential\u2019 Russian war with NATO \u2013 report\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"article__date\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__short-url\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__cover\">\n<div class=\"media  \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__item \" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.rt.com\/files\/2016.02\/original\/56b8453fc46188e64d8b45d1.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Radu Sigheti\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__footer media__footer_bottom \">\n<div class=\"media__title media__title_arcticle\">\u00a9 Radu Sigheti \/ Reuters<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__share\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">The British Army is to deploy 1,600 troops in Jordan to take part in war games which could be preparation for a potential \u2018confrontation\u2019 between Russia and NATO member countries in Eastern Europe, the Daily Telegraph has reported, citing sources.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>Army sources told the paper that the exercise, which will simulate an Iraq invasion for the first time in over a decade, is not a prelude to sending ground troops to fight Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS, ISIL), rather Exercise Shamal Storm could be seen as a practice routine to fight off any potential Russian invasion of Ukraine or Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis isn\u2019t a counter-Isil exercise. If anything, this is much more about us being prepared to join the US in Ukraine than it is in Syria,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0a source said as cited by the<em>\u00a0Daily Telegraph<\/em>, adding,\u00a0<em>\u201cThis is not the sort of kind of force you expect to roll into Aleppo to take on a bunch of jihadists.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, the British Ministry of Defence has dismissed claims made by the media that the upcoming drills are connected with preparations to go to war with Russia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>It is not an exercise about war with Russia,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0a Defence Ministry spokesman told RIA Novosti on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The drills are an annual event testing the army&#8217;s capability \u201c<em>to deploy and support an armored force of up to 30,000 troops anywhere in the world,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said. London is not\u00a0<em>\u201cpreparing to go to war with Russia,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he concluded.<\/p>\n<p>In January, around 80 military vehicles were sent from the UK, bound for the Jordanian port of Aqaba. More than 300 will be used in total. The exercise will be held in the southwestern desert area of the country, while troops from three UK divisions will be taking part.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War games in Middle East could prepare UK for \u2018potential\u2019 Russian war with NATO \u2013 report\u00a0 \u00a9 Radu Sigheti \/ Reuters The British Army is to deploy 1,600 troops in Jordan to take part in war games which could be preparation for a potential \u2018confrontation\u2019 between Russia and NATO member countries in Eastern Europe, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1607,3660,1822,553,8114,694,776,862,4332],"class_list":["post-17486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-aleppo","tag-daily-telegraph","tag-jordan","tag-nato","tag-rt-news","tag-russia","tag-syria","tag-war","tag-war-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17487,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17486\/revisions\/17487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}