{"id":23845,"date":"2011-06-10T18:38:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T22:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23845"},"modified":"2011-06-10T18:38:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T22:38:02","slug":"and-then-what-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23845","title":{"rendered":"And Then What? Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Caveat: This would would a simple geezer post except us geezers aren&#8217;t likely to be involved.<\/p>\n<p>I just got back from a mini-road trip. Only reason that is probative here is that I was helping a fellow Nam vet.<\/p>\n<p>Then I find this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scmp.com\/portal\/site\/SCMP\/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0\/?vgnextoid=a03156bd22a70310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&amp;ss=China&amp;s=News\" target=\"_blank\">Hanoi plans live-fire drills<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Vietnam&#8217;s navy will stage unprecedented  live-fire drills off its central coast on Monday in an apparent  escalation of Sino-Vietnamese tensions over the South China Sea &#8211; a  dispute that has so far involved only civilian ships.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have been sorta tracking this story, but this escalation begs the question; Who does Hanoi ask for help in this case?<\/p>\n<p>The UN, The Russians, India, or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I am a documented paranoid so me thinking our CINC would involve the USN is likely flawed.\u00a0 After all there ARE few Muslims in VN compared to Libya or Yemen.<\/p>\n<p>YMMV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caveat: This would would a simple geezer post except us geezers aren&#8217;t likely to be involved. &hellip; <a title=\"And Then What? Vietnam\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23845\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And Then What? Vietnam<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23845","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}