{"id":56921,"date":"2014-12-08T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=56921"},"modified":"2014-12-08T06:47:33","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T11:47:33","slug":"military-morale-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56921","title":{"rendered":"Military Morale Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m a huge fan of the <em>Military Times<\/em> family of publications. But on occasion, they manage to provide worthwhile military-related news.<\/p>\n<p>Their website yesterday published an article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/longform\/military\/2014\/12\/07\/americas-military-a-force-adrift\/18596571\/\"><em>&#8220;America&#8217;s Military: A Force Adrift&#8221;<\/em><\/a>. The article is long, and I&#8217;m not going to try to summarize it here. As is often the case, IMO the <em>Times<\/em> here perhaps exaggerates things a bit, and accentuates the negatives.<\/p>\n<p>Still, IMO the article seems fairly accurate &#8211; and informative.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice it to say that it doesn&#8217;t really tell us anything most of here don&#8217;t already know. Short version: morale in the military has taken a major hit since 2009, for various reasons. Today, it&#8217;s in the toilet. And Soldiers\/Sailors\/Airmen\/Marines expect things to get worse &#8211; almost certainly for good reason.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended reading, and IMO definitely worth your time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(Hat tip to the Drudge Report for pointing me at the linked article.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m a huge fan of the Military Times family of publications. But on &hellip; <a title=\"Military Morale Today\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=56921\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Military Morale Today<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56921","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}