{"id":525198,"date":"2026-06-30T03:55:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/525198\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T03:55:20","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T03:55:20","slug":"frank-gardner-navy-plans-reflect-sea-change-in-how-wars-are-fought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/525198\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Gardner: Navy plans reflect sea change in how wars are fought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph-styles__ParagraphStyled-sc-ffb5f5ba-0 fqhmpl\">In the recent US-Iran conflict around the Strait of Hormuz, the main take-away lesson for defence planners is that, despite US President Donald Trump&#8217;s claims of sinking all of Iran&#8217;s navy, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have continued to threaten that vital waterway and its shipping with just a handful of cheap, easily concealable drones, launched from coastal bases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the recent US-Iran conflict around the Strait of Hormuz, the main take-away lesson for defence planners is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525199,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-525198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525198\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}