{"id":19176,"date":"2025-08-25T12:46:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19176"},"modified":"2025-08-25T12:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:46:45","slug":"are-forever-wars-always-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=19176","title":{"rendered":"Are &#8216;Forever Wars&#8217; Always Bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In certain situations, a forever war may be the best option. If the cost of the war is low, the cost of total victory too high\/total victory is not possible, and the consequences of defeat great, then the best of bad options may be forever war.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Are &#039;Forever Wars&#039; Always Bad?\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3DkKPV8n1YI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In certain situations, a forever war may be the best option. If the cost of the war is low, the cost of total victory too high\/total victory is not possible, and the consequences of defeat great, then the best of bad options may be forever war. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3DkKPV8n1YI<\/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":[552,272,355,314,158],"class_list":["post-19176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-conflict","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19176","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=19176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19177,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19176\/revisions\/19177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}