00:00It would be remiss of me not to hark back to September's strike on Doha by Israel.
00:08Since then, has the GCC changed its defensive posture?
00:12Has it forced the collective to view their joint defense differently?
00:18And if so, what changes have been made?
00:20Well, right after the strikes on Doha, the leaders of the GCC held an extraordinary summit
00:28and support for our brothers in Qatar and called upon the ministers of defense of the GCC
00:38to hold an extraordinary meeting in order to look into ways to increase our military cooperation.
00:46We are all part of the GCC defense treaty, which covers everybody.
00:54Our charter says any attack on any GCC country means it's an attack on all the GCC.
01:04So the ministers of defense, when they met in their extraordinary meeting, came up with five major points.
01:13The first one is to increase intelligence sharing through the unified military command.
01:19Also, they called to work on transmitting the full air picture to all operations centers in the GCC states.
01:30Also, they made sure to accelerate the efforts of the GCC joint working team on the early warning system against ballistic missiles.
01:41The fourth point was to update joint defense plans in coordination between the unified military command and the GCC operations and the training committees.
01:54The last point, the fifth point, that the ministers of defense have agreed on is to conduct joint exercises between air operations and air defense centers within the next three months
02:10to be followed by a life joint air exercise after that.
02:16So this is the collective effort that the GCC countries have taken on a military basis.
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