{"id":1847,"date":"2010-01-30T12:37:41","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T19:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/?p=1847"},"modified":"2010-02-03T15:04:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T22:04:11","slug":"the-limits-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/the-limits-of-power\/","title":{"rendered":"The Limits of Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">(2008) Andrew Bacevich<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; color: #ff3300; font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/AndrewBacevich_LimitsOfPower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1848\" title=\"AndrewBacevich_LimitsOfPower\" src=\"http:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/AndrewBacevich_LimitsOfPower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"84\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><em>Content.<\/em> Draws heavily on the thought of Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr. America faces impediments on (i) cultural (profligacy leads to deficits and resource dependence); (ii) political; and (iii) military fronts. Much-needed focus is brought to bear on the notion that military commitment can bring about economic growth, \u00c3\u00a0 la Nitze&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0 (1950) NSC-68. The major novel hypothesis is that the quality of senior U.S. military leadership has sharply declined since WWII, and that this is responsible for failures in Iraq and Afghanistan.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(2008) Andrew Bacevich Content. Draws heavily on the thought of Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr. America faces impediments on (i) cultural (profligacy leads to deficits and resource dependence); (ii) political; and (iii) military fronts. Much-needed focus is brought to bear on the notion that military commitment can bring about economic growth, \u00c3\u00a0 la Nitze&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0 (1950) NSC-68. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/the-limits-of-power\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Limits of Power<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civilization"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1850,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847\/revisions\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realfuture.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}