{"id":7029,"date":"2022-01-15T20:23:24","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T20:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7029"},"modified":"2022-01-15T20:23:24","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T20:23:24","slug":"why-the-us-is-paying-more-for-the-military-after-the-afghanistan-war-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=7029","title":{"rendered":"Why the US is paying more for the military after the Afghanistan war is over"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;The US national security establishment sees China as the most urgent threat of the moment, while the entrenched interests of the arms industry endure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Put another way, although the US is no longer in Afghanistan, taxpayers continue to pay for the American military\u2019s massive global presence. Absent a fundamental rethinking of how the US sees national security and the role the military plays in foreign policy, big cuts are unlikely.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Congress didn\u2019t think that Biden had committed enough to combatting China in his original defense budget request, so lawmakers added some $25 billion in all.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22840615\/us-defense-spending-increase-afghanistan-withdrawal\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/22840615\/us-defense-spending-increase-afghanistan-withdrawal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The US national security establishment sees China as the most urgent threat of the moment, while the entrenched interests of the arms industry endure.<\/p>\n<p>Put another way, although the US is no longer in Afghanistan, taxpayers continue to pay for the American military\u2019s massive global presence. Absent a fundamental rethinking of how the US sees national security and the role the military plays in foreign policy, big cuts are unlikely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congress didn\u2019t think that Biden had committed enough to combatting China in his original defense budget request, so lawmakers added some $25 billion in all.&#8221;<\/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":[89,272,355,1193,797,314,259,1484,1032,279,619],"class_list":["post-7029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-government-spending","tag-industry","tag-international-relations","tag-military","tag-national-security","tag-special-interest","tag-spending","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029","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=7029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7030,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7029\/revisions\/7030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}