{"id":82400,"date":"2018-10-19T08:48:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T12:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82400"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:05","slug":"why-todays-troops-fear-a-new-war-is-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82400","title":{"rendered":"Why today\u2019s troops fear a new war is coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nearly half of all current military troops believe the United States will be drawn into a major war soon, a jarring rise in anxiety among service members worried about global instability in general and Russia and China in particular, according to a new Military Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/10\/15\/support-for-trump-is-fading-among-active-duty-troops-new-poll-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">poll of active-duty troops<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">About 46 percent of troops who responded to the anonymous survey of currently serving Military Times readers said they believe the U.S. will be drawn into a new war within the next year. That\u2019s a jarring increase from only about 5 percent who said the same thing in a similar poll conducted in September 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">Another 50 percent think the country will not end up in a major conflict during the next year. But that number is falling, down from more than two-thirds of those surveyed last fall who said a war was unlikely.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/10\/16\/why-todays-troops-fear-a-new-war-is-coming-soon\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/THMT3GQA6NGFRJFMGEELWBT6QY.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">The fears of war come as\u00a0President Donald Trump\u00a0in the last year has repeatedly emphasized improving military readiness in the face of growing threats from foreign adversaries, both loosely affiliated terrorist groups and traditional major power rivals. At the same time, top Pentagon officials have spoken publicly about the need to prepare for a conflict against a \u201cnear-peer&#8221; adversary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mco-body-item mco-body-type-text\">\n<p class=\"element element-paragraph\">When asked about specific countries, troops said Russia and China were among their top concerns. The poll showed a big increase in the number of troops who identify those two countries as significant or major threats: About 71 percent of troops said Russia was a significant threat, up 18 points from last year\u2019s survey. And 69 percent of troops said China poses a significant threat, up 24 points from last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to their study, the Air Force supports the President the least and the Marine Corps supports the President the most.\u00a0 How shocking is that?\u00a0 I doubt their study actually reflects what most &#8220;Troops&#8221; think but the data is interesting to play with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/10\/16\/why-todays-troops-fear-a-new-war-is-coming-soon\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/VT4TGTMHIVHZBDNOPXB7BDSXWU.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/10\/16\/why-todays-troops-fear-a-new-war-is-coming-soon\/\">Why today\u2019s troops fear a new war is coming soon<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of all current military troops believe the United States will be drawn into a &hellip; <a title=\"Why today\u2019s troops fear a new war is coming soon\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82400\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why today\u2019s troops fear a new war is coming soon<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":82403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,84,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-military-issues","category-politics","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82400","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\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/82403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}