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    'Blood And Oil' Traces Mohammed Bin Salman's Rise As A Ruthless Saudi Leader

    The Wall Street Journal's Bradley Hope and Justin Scheck chart MBS's evolution from an unfocused, overweight kid with a taste for McDonald's to an increasingly brutish man with an eye on the throne.
    by Jackie Northam Sep 01, 2020 4 minutes

    In March 2015, Saudi prince Mohammed bin Salman called a meeting of the kingdom's top military generals at the Saudi Defense Ministry. The rotund, 29-year-old prince had just been named the new defense minister by his father, King Salman, despite having no prior military training.

    At the top of the agenda was neighboring Yemen, where Iranian-backed Houthi rebels were rapidly seizing ground. The seasoned generals gathered around the table believed Prince Mohammed would stick to a decades-old playbook and wait for the U.S. to come to its aid. Instead the prince astonished the military brass, launching an order to "send in the F-15s."

    The audacious, high-stakes gamble

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