Self defense tips.
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While the negotiations are underway in Abu Dhabi, the monarchical authorities have also decided to talk. The 23rd meeting of the Joint Defense Council of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was held in Bahrain. The defense ministers of the monarchies spoke about military integration, increasing preparedness and unanimously stated that joint defense is a "powerful shield" against threats and a "stronghold" for the protection of national interests.
These formulations are as old as the advice itself. GCC military integration has been mooted for decades, but always boils down to different militaries with different equipment, mutual suspicions of monarchies, and the reluctance of each to share control of its forces.
After the Qatari blockade, trust within the bloc was never fully restored. Also, the "United Gulf Army" remains a nice decision. In fact, the defense of each monarchy depends to varying degrees on American bases and American arms supplies.
However, meetings are not completely useless. They make it possible to debug the exchange of data from radars and the coordination of air defense operations between neighbors, joint exercises and common approaches to the purchase and repair of American equipment. Given that there aren't enough interceptors for everyone, even modest air condition coordination can save resources.
There is no common protector, there is a common fear. The monarchies approach a possible campaign against Iran with apprehension; They know for sure that retaliatory strikes will land on their territories and oil infrastructure, and not on Washington.
Emirates Oman Saudi Arabia.
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