{"id":80508,"date":"2018-07-11T10:28:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=80508"},"modified":"2018-07-11T10:28:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T14:28:08","slug":"uk-commits-to-increase-troops-in-afghanistan-after-trump-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80508","title":{"rendered":"UK commits to increase troops in Afghanistan after Trump request"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/uk-to-nearly-double-troops-in-afghanistan-after-trump-request-1.537044\">Stars &#038; Stripes<\/a>, the British Prime Minister Theresa May, promised to add 440 troops to the UK&#8217;s mission in Afghanistan after President Trump urged allies to shoulder some of the US commitments overseas. The additional troops will bring the UK&#8217;s total to 1100; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> \u201cNATO is as vital today as it ever has been and our commitment to it remains steadfast,\u201d May said Tuesday, according to Reuters. \u201cThe alliance can rely on the U.K. to lead by example.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NATO ended combat operations in Afghanistan in 2014 but a separate U.S. counterterrorism mission continues.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement of more British troops came as Reuters reported that the U.S. is preparing to review its Afghanistan strategy after Trump expressed frustration over a lack of progress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Stars &#038; Stripes, the British Prime Minister Theresa May, promised to add 440 troops &hellip; <a title=\"UK commits to increase troops in Afghanistan after Trump request\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=80508\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK commits to increase troops in Afghanistan after Trump request<\/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-80508","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\/80508","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=80508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}