{"id":3944,"date":"2007-10-07T23:12:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T06:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/07\/barrett-tillman\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T23:50:03","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T06:50:03","slug":"barrett-tillman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/07\/barrett-tillman\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrett Tillman"},"content":{"rendered":"[audio:http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/charles\/awbarretttillman100507.mp3]\n<p>Barrett Tillman, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-We-Need-Extravagance-Shortages\/dp\/0760328692\/antiwarbookstore\"><em>What We Need: Extravagances and Shortages in America&#8217;s Military<\/em><\/a>, discusses the lack of preparedness before invading Iraq, problems with M-16 rifles, the billions wasted on unwarranted equipment while troops in the field go without the very basics, the corruption of the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Complex, the unnecessary F-22 and F-35 fighters and the threat of IEDs to our soldiers in Iraq.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dissentradio.com\/charles\/awbarretttillman100507.mp3\">MP3 here<\/a><\/strong>. (19:17)<\/p>\n<p>Barrett Tillman is the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s most prolific U.S. naval aviation author, having published over two-dozen titles on the World War 2 period alone. He has written numerous books for Osprey in recent years including the much acclaimed Hellcat Aces of World War 2 from the Aircraft of the Aces series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Military: Expensive Planes, Cheap Rifles<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[676],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-antiwar-movement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}