{"id":19729,"date":"2010-07-14T10:28:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19729"},"modified":"2010-07-14T10:28:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T14:28:48","slug":"fewer-airstrikes-as-ground-combat-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19729","title":{"rendered":"Fewer airstrikes as ground combat intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/military\/2010-07-14-1Aairstrikes14_ST_N.htm\">USAToday<\/a> reports that coalition forces are using their main asset in the war in Afghanistan&#8230;air power&#8230;75% less than they were three years ago;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So far this year, jets have dropped bombs on only 10% of their combat support missions, compared with almost 40% in 2007, Air Force records show. The decline coincides with the arrival of most of the additional 30,000 U.S. troops ordered to Afghanistan by President Obama. Attacks on U.S. and allied troops \u2014 as well as deaths \u2014 are at all-time highs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, the administration gives commanders fewer troops than those commanders say they need to win the war and then hamstring them with rules of engagement which won&#8217;t let them give the troops the support they need.<\/p>\n<p>They sure know how to make me an anti-war blogger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USAToday reports that coalition forces are using their main asset in the war in Afghanistan&#8230;air power&#8230;75% &hellip; <a title=\"Fewer airstrikes as ground combat intensifies\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19729\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fewer airstrikes as ground combat intensifies<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19729","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}