GULF RAPID DEPLOYMENT FORCE

Joint military exercises are to be staged by the six countries of the GCC in October, Kuwait's Defence Minister Shaikh Salem al Sabah has confirmed. Speaking to the press in Kuwait, Shaikh Salem said that the GCC Defence Ministers had asserted that such a Gulf joint exercise can bring Army commanders together and create a GCC Rapid Deployment Force (RDF) which can repel any external attack against any member state.