{"id":5004,"date":"2025-11-11T09:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=5004"},"modified":"2025-11-11T09:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:19:13","slug":"eleven-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/eleven-13\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Veterans Day<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The anniversary of the ceasefire in the &#8220;War To End All Wars.&#8221;  Kinda missed on that one, y&#8217;all.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That said, it&#8217;s incredible how much warfare has changed.  Casualty numbers, especially Killed In Action, have really dropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I happy that the huge deployments of the first couple of decades of this century seem to be basically over?  Absolutely.  Am I still disturbed by some of what&#8217;s happening in other parts of the world?  Yes.  The Russians are backfilling their rapidly-deteriorating ranks with <strong>slaves<\/strong> from Best Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who knows what the heck is going on in Africa;  the extravagant budgets have basically made sure that almost all foreign bureaus have closed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also wonder about the precision that used to permeate military units worldwide.  How quickly can someone break down an M16 today?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That sort of thing is actually important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/things-worth-remembering-finding-meaning-in-the-madness-of-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This from TheFP<\/a> this weekend was really incredible talking about a combatant trying to memorize poetry about war.  I&#8217;m envious, in a way, of having something else so all-consuming that it&#8217;s possible to focus on things like memorizing a poem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am happy, however, that the threats have been so reduced, even if it means hearing from people who aren&#8217;t worth the C4 it&#8217;d take to blow them up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veterans Day The anniversary of the ceasefire in the &#8220;War To End All Wars.&#8221; Kinda missed on that one, y&#8217;all. That said, it&#8217;s incredible how much warfare has changed. Casualty numbers, especially Killed In Action, have really dropped. Am I happy that the huge deployments of the first couple of decades of this century seem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}