{"id":12529,"date":"2021-08-15T15:48:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T19:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=12529"},"modified":"2021-08-15T15:48:31","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T19:48:31","slug":"it-may-never-happen-the-88-billion-gamble-on-the-afghan-army-thats-going-up-in-smoke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=12529","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It may never happen\u2019: The $88 billion gamble on the Afghan army that&#8217;s going up in smoke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon hasn&#8217;t given up on its trainees but it can no longer hide the reality they&#8217;re still largely a hollow force.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/13\/afghan-army-pentagon-504469\">\u2018It may never happen\u2019: The $88 billion gamble on the Afghan army that&#8217;s going up in smoke<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon hasn&#8217;t given up on its trainees but it can no&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[687,758,57],"class_list":["post-12529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-usa","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}