{"id":20897,"date":"2026-01-01T21:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20897"},"modified":"2026-01-01T21:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T21:21:10","slug":"gen-michel-yakovleff-on-why-the-west-no-longer-wins-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20897","title":{"rendered":"GEN Michel Yakovleff on Why the West No Longer Wins Wars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The West is losing its ability to win wars because: ,among other causes, they believe in fantasies that there will be a technical solution to winning tough wars that don&#8217;t involve great loss of life; they no longer have a demographic edge; and they don&#8217;t believe in the correctness and goodness of their overarching goals.&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=\"GEN Michel Yakovleff on Why the West No Longer Wins Wars\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dlZ7cw_9pvc?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>The West is losing its ability to win wars because: ,among other causes, they believe in fantasies that there will be a technical solution to winning tough wars that don&#8217;t involve great loss of life; they no longer have a demographic edge; and they don&#8217;t believe in the correctness and goodness of their overarching goals. <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dlZ7cw_9pvc<\/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":[625,2269,552,53,626,259,1556,158],"class_list":["post-20897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-births","tag-casualties","tag-conflict","tag-deaths","tag-demographics","tag-military","tag-the-west","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20897","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=20897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20898,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20897\/revisions\/20898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}