{"id":40575,"date":"2022-09-02T19:45:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T03:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=40575"},"modified":"2022-09-02T19:45:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T03:45:45","slug":"falling-military-recruitment-why-we-shouldnt-be-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/02\/falling-military-recruitment-why-we-shouldnt-be-surprised\/","title":{"rendered":"Falling Military Recruitment: Why We Shouldn&#8217;t Be Surprised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military is having a hard time finding new recruits. With a string of failed wars that should&#8217;ve never happened, along with illogical vaccine mandates and &#8220;wokeness,&#8221; is it really a surprise?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vkBOoSE-JPI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Reprinted from <a href=\"http:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &#038; Prosperity<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. military is having a hard time finding new recruits. With a string of failed wars that should&#8217;ve never happened, along with illogical vaccine mandates and &#8220;wokeness,&#8221; is it really a surprise? Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace &#038; Prosperity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-40575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"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\/40575","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\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40577,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40575\/revisions\/40577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40575"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=40575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}