{"id":110884,"date":"2019-09-19T01:20:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T23:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/19\/how-did-attack-breach-saudi-defences-and-what-will-happen-next\/"},"modified":"2019-09-19T01:20:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T23:20:47","slug":"how-did-attack-breach-saudi-defences-and-what-will-happen-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=110884","title":{"rendered":"How did attack breach Saudi defences and what will happen next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Escalation is dangerous because infrastructure could be exposed to retaliationSaudi Arabia\u2019s state-of-the-art missile defence systems could do nothing to stop the swarm of drones and cruise missiles that struck some of its most important oil infrastructure at the weekend. They were designed to deal with different threats \u2013 and they were looking in the wrong direction.The audacious strike against the Abqaiq petroleum processing facilities and Khurais oil field on Saturday morning \u2013 which the Saudis say was \u201cunquestionably sponsored by Iran\u201d \u2013 has exposed the limits of the defences of the world\u2019s largest military spender per capita. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/19\/how-did-attack-breach-saudi-defences-and-what-will-happen-next\" target=\"_blank\">How did attack breach Saudi defences and what will happen next?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Escalation is dangerous because infrastructure could be exposed to retaliationSaudi Arabia\u2019s state-of-the-art missile defence systems could do nothing to stop the swarm of drones and cruise missiles that struck some of its most important oil infrastructure at the weekend. They were designed to deal with different threats \u2013 and they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}