{"id":20079,"date":"2010-08-11T08:29:03","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T12:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20079"},"modified":"2010-08-11T08:29:03","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T12:29:03","slug":"unlearning-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20079","title":{"rendered":"Unlearning lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mew sent us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/08\/09\/gates-cut-major-military-command-norfolk-officials-say\/\">a link to a story about SecDef Gates&#8217; attempt to dismantle<\/a> the Joint Forces Command in order to save money. The article highlights Congress&#8217; attempt to block him to save jobs in the Tidewater Area of Virginia. That should be the least of their worries.<\/p>\n<p>Joint Forces Command was founded in the fog of the Grenada liberation. The combined branches of the military discovered that they had huge blank spaces between them which unnecessarily complicated mission-related tasks. The Joint Forces Command grew out of these shortcomings. The test of the command came in the form of the Panama liberation and nearly every military operation since.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the Secretary of Defense, who should have a sense of the history of the command if anyone does, thinks it fine and good to shut down one of the most effective tools that we have which teaches young officers how to work with the other services towards a common objective. The Joint Operations COmmand puts square pegs in round holes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure that there are  ways to cut spending other than cutting out whole commands. I guess they could probably start by cutting military aircraft for members of Congress. I mean, right off the top my head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mew sent us a link to a story about SecDef Gates&#8217; attempt to dismantle the Joint &hellip; <a title=\"Unlearning lessons\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20079\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Unlearning lessons<\/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":[46,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20079","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=20079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}