{"id":71631,"date":"2017-04-22T10:58:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-22T14:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=71631"},"modified":"2017-04-22T11:00:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T15:00:17","slug":"pentagon-chief-us-wont-reveal-mother-of-all-bombs-toll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71631","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon chief: US won&#8217;t reveal &#8216;mother of all bombs&#8217; toll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">In a refreshing change from the former administration, SecDef Jim Mattis does not intend to discuss BDA or body count from use of the GBU-43\/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB, affectionately known as the Mother of all Bombs) on an ISIS tunnel complex last week. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The Afghan government reports over 90 insurgents were killed, with no civilians involved.\u00a0Reporters have asked for his assessment of the bomb\u2019s effect, but he refused to comment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">&#8220;For many years we have not been calculating the results of warfare by simply quantifying the number of enemy killed,&#8221; Mattis said. &#8220;You all know the corrosive effect of that sort of metric back in the Vietnam war and it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s stayed with us all these years,&#8221; said Mattis<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Seems the adults are in charge.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/articles\/us-defense-chief-pentagon-wont-reveal-damage-from-big-bomb\">More Here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a refreshing change from the former administration, SecDef Jim Mattis does not intend to discuss &hellip; <a title=\"Pentagon chief: US won&#8217;t reveal &#8216;mother of all bombs&#8217; toll\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=71631\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pentagon chief: US won&#8217;t reveal &#8216;mother of all bombs&#8217; toll<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71631","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\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}