{"id":5543,"date":"2024-04-26T07:01:34","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T13:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=5543"},"modified":"2024-04-26T07:02:13","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T13:02:13","slug":"5543","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=5543","title":{"rendered":"Deterrence? We don&#8217;t need no stinkin&#8217; deterrence."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Deterrence MUST be Job One. That is the military\u2019s reason to exist. We haven\u2019t been doing well at that, because of all the other things that congress critters thought were more important. When we are no longer the biggest fleet in the world, and our ships have to come limping back home from missions they were designed to excel at, that doesn\u2019t deter aggression.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/wlehman.substack.com\/p\/all-the-answers?publication_id=2389239&amp;post_id=143970057&amp;triggerShare=true&amp;isFreemail=false&amp;r=kihcf&amp;triedRedirect=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">All the Answers<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Deterrence MUST be Job One. That is the military\u2019s reason to exist. We haven\u2019t been doing well at that, because of all the other things that congress critters thought were more important. When we are no longer the biggest fleet in the world, and our ships have to come limping back home from missions they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/?p=5543\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deterrence? We don&#8217;t need no stinkin&#8217; deterrence.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,124,64,69,77,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats","category-deep-state","category-idiots-elites","category-idiots-politicians","category-military","category-war-on-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5543"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5545,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5543\/revisions\/5545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darknessovertheland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}