{"id":17675,"date":"2021-08-16T12:56:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=17675"},"modified":"2021-08-16T12:58:04","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T17:58:04","slug":"military-bureaucracy-unchecked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=17675","title":{"rendered":"Military Bureaucracy Unchecked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>On one subject most foreign policy experts agree: America needs to temper its faith in its armed forces. \u201cWe had so much faith in our military that we were inevitably going to overstep,\u201d said Dempsey, the Afghanistan veteran. \u201cA military bureaucracy unchecked never yields good outcomes.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Retired Lt. Col. Jason Dempsey, a two-time veteran of the war<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/us-hubris-afghanistan-humiliation\/2021\/08\/14\/47fb025a-fc67-11eb-9c0e-97e29906a970_story.html\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/us-hubris-afghanistan-humiliation\/2021\/08\/14\/47fb025a-fc67-11eb-9c0e-97e29906a970_story.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On one subject most foreign policy experts agree: America needs to temper its faith in its armed forces. \u201cWe had so much faith in our military that we were inevitably going to overstep,\u201d said Dempsey, the Afghanistan veteran. \u201cA military &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/?p=17675\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17677,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675\/revisions\/17677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hendersonbrook.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}