{"id":57940,"date":"2015-01-29T09:30:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T14:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57940"},"modified":"2015-01-29T08:12:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T13:12:54","slug":"previewing-our-post-draw-down-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57940","title":{"rendered":"Previewing our post draw down world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NPR is reporting that with the increasing levels of escalation by Russia that countries in Europe are finding their military forces <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/parallels\/2015\/01\/27\/381631684\/threats-from-russia-underscores-europes-need-to-boost-military\">wanting<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last month a Russian military aircraft flying in stealth nearly crashed into a commercial passenger plane taking off from Copenhagen. In April, Russian fighter jets carried out a simulated bombing raid on Stockholm. And nobody seems able to do anything about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why you ask?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The army has been reduced by 90 percent, from approximately half a million men to, today, 50,000 [troops] including the home guard, 25,000 if you just count the regulars,&#8221; he says.The story is similarly dramatic with the navy \u2014 which has been scaled back by some 80 percent \u2014 and the air force, which has slimmed down by 70 percent, according to Neretnieks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The line that caught my eye and should be read over and over.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Europe as a whole, of course, downsized their forces,&#8221; he says. &#8220;We tend to forget that things can change quicker than we thought.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ve been in the armed forces since the early &#8217;70s, and I&#8217;ve only experienced reductions,&#8221; he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPR is reporting that with the increasing levels of escalation by Russia that countries in Europe &hellip; <a title=\"Previewing our post draw down world?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57940\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Previewing our post draw down world?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-cuts","category-foreign-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57940","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\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}