{"id":4463,"date":"2019-09-20T14:24:22","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T17:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nachodelatorre.com.ar\/mosconi\/?p=4463"},"modified":"2019-09-20T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T17:24:22","slug":"ataques-a-la-planta-de-procesamiento-de-petroleo-de-abqaiq-y-al-campo-petrolero-de-khurais-exponen-fallas-de-seguridad-en-el-costoso-sistema-de-defensa-saudi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/?p=4463","title":{"rendered":"Ataques a la planta de procesamiento de petr\u00f3leo de Abqaiq y al campo petrolero de Khurais exponen fallas de seguridad en el costoso sistema de defensa Saud\u00ed"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b><\/b>El sistema de defensa\u00a0\u00a0saud\u00ed no pudo proteger un activo preciado: sus\u00a0 instalaciones petroleras. Un\u00a0 ataque de misiles y drones\u00a0\u00a0de bajo vuelo caus\u00f3 un aumento significativo en los precios del petr\u00f3leo crudo en el mundo.\u00a0<\/span>Los ataques a la planta de procesamiento de petr\u00f3leo de Abqaiq y al campo petrolero de Khurais pusieron de re<\/span>lieve un problema estrat\u00e9gico. Si bien los militares dicen que es imposible proteger por completo los objetivos fijos, como los campos petroleros, de todos los ataques a\u00e9reos sobre un \u00e1rea grande.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"SaudiWASHINGTON \u2014 For the past half-century, the United States has trained and supplied the Saudi military, selling the wealthy kingdom more than $150 billion in dazzling high-technology weapons, including fighter jets and air defense systems.<\/p>\n

And yet, the kingdom could not protect a prized national asset \u2014 its oil installations \u2014 from a recent attack by low-flying cruise missiles and drones that caused the\u00a0largest rise<\/a>\u00a0in crude oil prices in a single day. The advanced weapons the United States sold to the Saudis include the Patriot air-defense system, but it is deployed near important military installations, and not oil infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Nor has the country\u2019s military managed to defeat Iranian-backed Houthi insurgents in Yemen, despite a four-year, Saudi-led bombing campaign that has left more than 8,500 civilians dead and more than 9,600 injured, according to international monitors.<\/p>\n

Even with American intelligence providing the latest in surveillance, the Saudi military has often been unable to act effectively, reinforcing a view among national security officials and humanitarian activists that \u2014 despite all the sparkling, expensive hardware \u2014 Saudi Arabia remains uninterested or incapable of defending its entire territory or competently and humanely prosecuting a war abroad.<\/p>\n

During one episode three years ago, American intelligence officials gave their Saudi counterparts the location of 30 Houthi insurgents who had crossed the border and entered the kingdom. But the Saudis were unable to muster anyone to go after them, according to a former senior Defense Department official. The insurgents stayed in Saudi territory for eight hours \u2014 a period that included an extended rest break \u2014 all the while tracked by American intelligence before returning to Yemen, officials said.<\/p>\n

\"TheTo be sure, Saudi Arabia is an important American ally in the Arab world and a key bulwark against Iran. President Trump has praised the relationship while defending the kingdom\u2019s leadership after the murder last year of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist.<\/p>\n

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Saudi Arabia, Mr. Trump noted, is an important trading partner of the United States. \u201cThey spend $400 to $450 billion over a period of time, all money, all jobs, buying equipment,\u201d the president said in an interview on NBC\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d in June. \u201cI\u2019m not like a fool that says, \u2018We don\u2019t want to do business with them.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cWho doesn\u2019t love a fancy jet?\u201d asked Becca Wasser, a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation, a policy research institution. \u201cFor the Saudi military, it\u2019s been about having prestige items, having a glitter force, without having the skill of being an effective military force.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Fuente:\u00a0<\/strong>https:\/\/www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

El sistema de defensa\u00a0\u00a0saud\u00ed no pudo proteger un activo preciado: sus\u00a0 instalaciones petroleras. Un\u00a0 ataque de misiles y drones\u00a0\u00a0de bajo vuelo caus\u00f3 un aumento significativo… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fie.undef.edu.ar\/ceptm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}