{"id":14900,"date":"2021-11-11T02:44:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T07:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=14900"},"modified":"2021-11-11T02:44:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T07:44:14","slug":"the-afghan-military-was-made-up-of-ghost-soldiers-who-didnt-actually-exist-and-thats-why-it-collapsed-so-rapidly-ex-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=14900","title":{"rendered":"The Afghan military was made up of &#8216;ghost&#8217; soldiers who didn&#8217;t actually exist, and that&#8217;s why it collapsed so rapidly: ex-finance minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US government was warned for years about &#8220;ghost&#8221; soldiers in Afghanistan, or fake troops created by corrupt officials to draw a salary.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/afghan-military-was-made-up-of-fake-ghost-soldiers-ex-finance-minister-2021-11\">The Afghan military was made up of &#8216;ghost&#8217; soldiers who didn&#8217;t actually exist, and that&#8217;s why it collapsed so rapidly: ex-finance minister<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government was warned for years about &#8220;ghost&#8221; soldiers in Afghanistan,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[687,57],"class_list":["post-14900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-afghanistan","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900","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=14900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}