{"id":9292,"date":"2022-11-13T14:49:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T14:49:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9292"},"modified":"2022-11-13T14:49:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T14:49:17","slug":"the-u-s-is-losing-yet-another-war-on-terror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=9292","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Is Losing Yet Another \u2018War on Terror\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;\u201cThe western Sahel has seen a quadrupling in the number of militant Islamist group events since 2019,\u201d reads the new analysis by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/pentagon\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pentagon<\/a>\u2019s foremost research institution devoted to the continent. \u201cThe 2,800 violent events projected for 2022 represent a doubling in the past year. This violence has expanded in intensity and geographic reach.\u201d&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;Despite substantial engagement by American commandos, terrorism trends across the continent are dismal, according to the Pentagon\u2019s Africa Center.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/u-losing-yet-another-war-130714019.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/u-losing-yet-another-war-130714019.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;\u201cThe western Sahel has seen a quadrupling in the number of militant Islamist group events since 2019,\u201d reads the new analysis by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, the Pentagon\u2019s foremost research institution devoted to the continent. \u201cThe 2,800 violent events projected for 2022 represent a doubling in the past year. This violence has expanded in intensity and geographic reach.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite substantial engagement by American commandos, terrorism trends across the continent are dismal, according to the Pentagon\u2019s Africa Center.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[417,355,314,1047,1758,108],"class_list":["post-9292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-africa","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-islam","tag-separatists","tag-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292","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=9292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9293,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9292\/revisions\/9293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}