{"id":37522,"date":"2018-09-09T10:01:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T15:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37522"},"modified":"2018-09-09T10:01:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T15:01:53","slug":"new-alliance-emerges-in-eastern-mediterranean-to-reshape-regional-security-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37522","title":{"rendered":"New Alliance Emerges in Eastern Mediterranean to Reshape Regional Security Landscape"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Alliance Emerges in Eastern Mediterranean to Reshape Regional Security Landscape<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n

The military-political landscape in Europe and the Mediterranean is changing. NATO is not as unified as it once was, and Turkey\u2019s membership has become more of a formality than a real thing. A pro-US group consisting of Great Britain, Poland, and the Baltic States has emerged as part of a North Atlantic Alliance that is divided by differences and the open rift over the 2% financial contribution, a decree that is largely ignored, along with the other divisions that are weakening the bloc.\u00a0O<\/a>ther groups<\/a> are arising that also have common security interests. A new pact, an Arab NATO allied with the United States, will soon\u00a0materialize<\/a>\u00a0in the Middle East.\u00a0 Changes are coming, but they are hard to predict as everything is currently in a state of flux.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe United States is interested in increasing its use of military bases and ports in Greece,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said<\/a>\u00a0General Joseph Dunford,\u00a0the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), on Sept. 4 during his visit to Athens.\u00a0 \u201cIf you look at geography, and you look at current operations in Libya, and you look at\u00a0current operations in Syria<\/a>, you look at potential other operations in the eastern Mediterranean, the geography of Greece and the opportunities here are pretty significant,\u201d<\/em> he added.\u00a0According to<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0Military Times, \u201c[N]o specific bases have been identified, but that Supreme Allied Commander Europe Army Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti is evaluating several options for increased US flight training, port calls to do forward-based ship repairs and additional multilateral exercises.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross came to Greece right after the CJCS\u2019s\u00a0visit<\/a>\u00a0to take part in the annual Thessaloniki International Trade Fair.<\/p>\n

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New Alliance Emerges in Eastern Mediterranean to Reshape Regional Security Landscape The military-political landscape in Europe and the Mediterranean is changing. NATO is not as unified as it once was, and Turkey\u2019s membership has become more of a formality than a real thing. A pro-US group consisting of Great Britain, Poland, and the Baltic States […]<\/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":[15742,281,522,553,16490,8203,818],"class_list":["post-37522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-eastern-mediterranean","tag-europe","tag-middle-east","tag-nato","tag-peter-korzun","tag-strategic-culture-foundation","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37522","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=37522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37523,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37522\/revisions\/37523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}