{"id":71476,"date":"2026-04-12T02:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/bunker-busters-and-a-burger-king-a-visual-guide-to-us-military-bases-on-british-soil\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T02:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:56:34","slug":"bunker-busters-and-a-burger-king-a-visual-guide-to-us-military-bases-on-british-soil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/bunker-busters-and-a-burger-king-a-visual-guide-to-us-military-bases-on-british-soil\/","title":{"rendered":"Bunker busters and a Burger King: a visual guide to US military bases on British soil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>War with Iran has brought 15 American sites across the UK countryside firmly into the spotlight<\/p>\n<p>They are dotted across the UK countryside, often obscured from public view behind highly secured perimeter fences. Technically, they are on British soil, and misleadingly most have \u201cRoyal Air Force\u201d in their name.<\/p>\n<p>But in many respects, these military outposts are under the control of the US president and commander-in-chief.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/12\/visual-guide-us-military-bases-british-soil-iran-war\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>War with Iran has brought 15 American sites across the UK countryside firmly into the spotlight They are dotted across the UK countryside, often obscured from public view behind highly secured perimeter fences. Technically, they are on British soil, and misleadingly most have \u201cRoyal Air Force\u201d in their name. But in many respects, these military &#8230; <a title=\"Bunker busters and a Burger King: a visual guide to US military bases on British soil\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/bunker-busters-and-a-burger-king-a-visual-guide-to-us-military-bases-on-british-soil\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bunker busters and a Burger King: a visual guide to US military bases on British soil\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}