{"id":13537,"date":"2024-05-01T17:28:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T17:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13537"},"modified":"2024-05-01T17:28:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T17:28:49","slug":"americas-god-of-war-is-now-many-decades-old-the-us-army-cant-replace-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13537","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s \u2018God of War\u2019 is now many decades old. The US Army can\u2019t replace it"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Forget the tank, the fighter jet and even the drone.&nbsp;<em>Artillery&nbsp;<\/em>is the most important weapon on the modern battlefield, just as it was 100, 200 or even 300 years ago. It was not for nothing that Stalin dubbed artillery the \u2018God of War\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So it\u2019s extremely problematic that the world\u2019s leading army, the US Army, can\u2019t manage to develop a new howitzer. Trying and failing three times in a generation to acquire new heavy artillery, the Army is stuck with upgraded versions of the same howitzers it\u2019s been using for 61 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/us-army-struggling-build-today-110610720.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/us-army-struggling-build-today-110610720.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Forget the tank, the fighter jet and even the drone. Artillery is the most important weapon on the modern battlefield, just as it was 100, 200 or even 300 years ago. It was not for nothing that Stalin dubbed artillery the \u2018God of War\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>So it\u2019s extremely problematic that the world\u2019s leading army, the US Army, can\u2019t manage to develop a new howitzer. Trying and failing three times in a generation to acquire new heavy artillery, the Army is stuck with upgraded versions of the same howitzers it\u2019s been using for 61 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/tech\/us-army-struggling-build-today-110610720.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[886,1651,259,1127,619,158,1055],"class_list":["post-13537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-army","tag-artillery","tag-military","tag-tanks","tag-united-states","tag-war","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13538,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13537\/revisions\/13538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}