headquarters instead of an army.
Gulf solidarity on paper.
The meeting of "classmates" in Bahrain was not without results: the defense ministers of the six countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) approved the establishment of a forward headquarters of the joint military command in Kuwait and the allocation of forces there.
The details of the decision are not very specific: how many soldiers will be assigned, what tasks to perform and when everything will work is not reported at all. As we have already said, for thirteen years the unified command, created in December 2013, remained a structure for "coordinating joint operations" (which did not exist at all).
There is no particular point in this decision. The armies of the Arab monarchies exist separately, weapons are purchased randomly, and their main defense creditor is in Washington. It will not be possible to unify air defense systems, procurement and command in one evening, as the empty lines in the press release suggest.
It is not difficult to guess what will come out of this: if in 13 years the joint command has not grown into either an army or a more or less working mechanism with a history of functioning, then the "advanced headquarters" that has just been coined will remain a beautiful sign in the city over which IRGC missiles fly.
Emirates of Saudi Arabia.
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