{"id":23103,"date":"2026-09-21T23:11:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23103"},"modified":"2026-09-21T23:11:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T23:11:47","slug":"saudi-arabias-armed-forces-can-lots-of-money-buy-a-major-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=23103","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia&#8217;s Armed Forces &#8211; Can (lots of) Money Buy a Major Military?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saudi Arabia&#8217;s internal military protecting against internal threats is larger than its military whose primary focus is protecting against external threats. Although, the internal army would likely also fight against foreign threats in a war. This is inefficient for fighting a foreign enemy, but helps prevent coups and internal rebellion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saudi Arabia has a military set up to refight Desert Storm with tanks and air power, not one prepared to fight masses of drones and missiles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Saudi Arabia&amp;apos;s Armed Forces - Can (lots of) Money Buy a Major Military?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/quU1RD3L3OU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s internal military protecting against internal threats is larger than its military whose primary focus is protecting against external threats. Although, the internal army would likely also fight against foreign threats in a war. This is inefficient for fighting a foreign enemy, but helps prevent coups and internal rebellion. <\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia has a military set up to refight Desert Storm with tanks and air power, not one prepared to fight masses of drones and missiles. <\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabia&#8217;s internal military protecting against internal threats is larger than its military whose primary focus is protecting against external threats. Although, the internal army would likely also fight against foreign threats in a war. This is inefficient for fighting a foreign enemy, but helps prevent coups and internal rebellion. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=quU1RD3L3OU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[552,158],"class_list":["post-23103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23104,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23103\/revisions\/23104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}