{"id":2132,"date":"2006-11-05T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2006-11-05T17:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/11\/war_planning_fo\/"},"modified":"2006-11-05T12:04:38","modified_gmt":"2006-11-05T17:04:38","slug":"war_planning_fo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/11\/war_planning_fo\/","title":{"rendered":"War Planning For Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like the &#8220;commanders in the field&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/WORLD\/meast\/11\/04\/war.games.ap\/index.html?eref=rss_topstories\">didn&#8217;t do their homework<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A series of secret U.S. war games in 1999 showed that an invasion and post-war administration of Iraq would require 400,000 troops, nearly three times the number there now.<br \/>\nAnd even then, the games showed, the country still had a chance of dissolving into chaos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yet, in the battle to save western civilization from the Islamofacists, we only send 150,000 troops.  Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/11\/war_planning_fo\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to War Planning For Iraq\"><p>Looks like the &#8220;commanders in the field&#8221; didn&#8217;t do their homework: A series of secret U.S. war games in 1999 showed that an invasion and post-war administration of Iraq would require 400,000 troops, nearly three times the number there now. And even then, the games showed, the country still had a chance of dissolving into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}