{"id":960724,"date":"2023-01-18T06:57:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-18T06:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=271744"},"modified":"2023-01-18T06:57:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T06:57:02","slug":"how-the-the-pentagons-national-defense-strategy-drives-record-military-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/01\/18\/how-the-the-pentagons-national-defense-strategy-drives-record-military-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"How the the Pentagon\u2019s National Defense Strategy Drives Record Military Spending"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than two millennia ago, in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides recounted a disastrous conflict when Athens waged against Sparta. A masterwork on strategy and war, the book is still taught at the U.S. Army War College and many other military institutions across the world. A passage from it describing an ultimatum Athens  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/18\/how-the-the-pentagons-national-defense-strategy-drives-record-military-spending\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/18\/how-the-the-pentagons-national-defense-strategy-drives-record-military-spending\/\">How the the Pentagon&#8217;s National Defense Strategy Drives Record Military Spending<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/01\/18\/how-the-the-pentagons-national-defense-strategy-drives-record-military-spending\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than two millennia ago, in the History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides recounted a disastrous conflict when Athens waged against Sparta. A masterwork on strategy and war, the book is still taught at the U.S. Army War College and many other mi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":696,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":960725,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960724\/revisions\/960725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}