{"id":979282,"date":"2023-02-02T06:58:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T06:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=273040"},"modified":"2023-02-02T06:58:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T06:58:08","slug":"can-the-military-industrial-complex-be-tamed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/02\/can-the-military-industrial-complex-be-tamed\/","title":{"rendered":"Can the Military-Industrial Complex Be Tamed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Within the military-industrial complex, there are no incentives to do the right thing.\u00a0 Those few who have a conscience and speak out honorably are punished, including truth-tellers in the enlisted ranks like Chelsea Manning and Daniel Hale.\u00a0Even being an officer doesn\u2019t make you immune.\u00a0 For his temerity in resisting the Vietnam War, David M. Shoup, a retired Marine Corps general and Medal of Honor recipient, was typically dismissed by his peers as unbalanced and of questionable sanity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/02\/can-the-military-industrial-complex-be-tamed\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/02\/can-the-military-industrial-complex-be-tamed\/\">Can the Military-Industrial Complex Be Tamed?<\/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\/02\/02\/can-the-military-industrial-complex-be-tamed\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Within the military-industrial complex, there are no incentives to do the right thing.\u00a0 Those few who have a conscience and speak out honorably are punished, including truth-tellers in the enlisted ranks like Chelsea Manning and Daniel Hale.\u00a0Even being&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1463,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979282"}],"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\/1463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979283,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979282\/revisions\/979283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}