{"id":106444,"date":"2020-10-22T07:30:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-22T11:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=106444"},"modified":"2020-10-21T15:39:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T19:39:19","slug":"starship-troopers-off-usmc-commandants-reading-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106444","title":{"rendered":"Starship Troopers off USMC Commandant&#8217;s reading list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/a\/a9\/Starship_Troopers_%28novel%29.jpg\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I stood by while General Berger cut USMC flying squadron&#8217;s plane strength. I stood by when he got rid of all the Corps&#8217; armor and much of its artillery. I can remain silent no longer!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/taskandpurpose.com\/community\/starship-troopers-marine-commandant-reading-list\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Task and Purpose<\/a> reports the Commandant&#8217;s reading list is out. Off the list is the classic military science fiction work <em>Starship Troopers<\/em> by US Navy veteran Robert Heinlein. On the list are several post-9\/11 themed books, namely one written by Maximilian Uriarte (AKA Terminal Lance).<\/p>\n<p>And, since the Corps is apparently less concerned about rank now;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Additionally, the new list does away with recommendations based on rank and instead sorts the books into categories that range from the profession of arms to innovation, leadership, strategy, and the commandant&#8217;s choice \u2014 which in this case is The Kill Chain by C. Brose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I stood by while General Berger cut USMC flying squadron&#8217;s plane strength. I stood by when &hellip; <a title=\"Starship Troopers off USMC Commandant&#8217;s reading list\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=106444\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Starship Troopers off USMC Commandant&#8217;s reading list<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,331,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-whackos","category-marines","category-ygbsm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106445,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106444\/revisions\/106445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}