{"id":100731,"date":"2024-08-03T21:21:24","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T11:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-increase-fighter-jet-presence-middle-east\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T21:21:24","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T11:21:24","slug":"pentagon-us-to-bolster-fighter-jet-presence-in-middle-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=100731","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon: US To Bolster Fighter Jet Presence In Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                    The US is moving to beef up its military presence in the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/category\/middle-east\/\">Middle East<\/a> and to maintain an <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/aircraft-carrier\/\">aircraft carrier<\/a> there. The USS<em> Theodore Roosevelt <\/em>previously<em> <\/em>replaced <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/dwight-d-eisenhower-aircraft-carrier-returns-us\/\" >the USS <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/dwight-d-eisenhower-aircraft-carrier-returns-us\/\" ><em>Eisenhower<\/em><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/dwight-d-eisenhower-aircraft-carrier-returns-us\/\" > (which recently returned home after an extended deployment)<\/a>. While tensions are almost always running high in parts of the Middle East, they took a dramatic leap on July 31, 2024, with the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/iran\/\">Iran<\/a>. Iran is expected to launch an imminent retaliation against Israel for the assassination in Tehran.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US will move fighter jets, an aircraft carrier, and other military assets to bolster its presence in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,567,790,858,708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-guides","category-iran","category-israel","category-us-navy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100731"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100842,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100731\/revisions\/100842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}