{"id":35178,"date":"2013-04-18T13:40:50","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T17:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35178"},"modified":"2013-04-18T13:40:50","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T17:40:50","slug":"germany-steps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35178","title":{"rendered":"Germany steps up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/middle-east\/germany-offers-troops-for-afghan-training-mission-1.217172\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>, Germany has offered to provide about 800 additional troops to Afghanistan to help train the Afghan Army after the US leaves next year;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[German] Defense Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Berlin is offering to station between roughly 600 and 800 soldiers in Kabul and the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif for a two-year period starting in 2015. They would provide training, advice and support to local forces but not engage in combat missions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Germany now has about 4,170 troops in Afghanistan, mostly in the north, which has been a relatively calm region.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>the Germans say that first they need to be invited by the Afghan government and then the move would need to be approved by the next German government after this year&#8217;s elections in the Fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Stars &#038; Stripes, Germany has offered to provide about 800 additional troops to &hellip; <a title=\"Germany steps up\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35178\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Germany steps up<\/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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35178","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=35178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}