{"id":9656,"date":"2026-06-10T11:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/?p=9656"},"modified":"2026-06-10T12:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:42:54","slug":"defence-procurement-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/2026\/06\/10\/defence-procurement-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Procurement Concerns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well worth reading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-provider-bluesky wp-block-embed-bluesky\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mnuas5b4nk2g\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreihalcpnmjh3dmwcbbwubdom6atcu4kg5vwjffmlo6rdwv2pmfv4mi\"><p lang=\"en\">This is a worthwhile long read on procurement issues (with some reference to AI and electronic warfare).  Roberts\u2018 conclusion notes: &#34;&#8230; a fence can be an air defense system, and that the measure of a defense architecture is not its sophistication but its endurance.&#34;<\/p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5?ref_src=embed\">Gary R. Bunt (@garyrbunt.bsky.social)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:sgdlvu6ir5hlaxdl3uyd5jx5\/post\/3mnuas5b4nk2g?ref_src=embed\">2026-06-09T12:58:49.702Z<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well worth reading:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,937,316,276,425],"tags":[1127,1128,279,740,313,280],"class_list":["post-9656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gulf-region","category-ksa","category-qatar","category-uae","category-uae-digital","tag-defence","tag-gulf-region","tag-ksa","tag-military","tag-qatar","tag-uae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9657,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9656\/revisions\/9657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/virtuallyislamic.com\/vi2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}