{"id":4273,"date":"2008-04-09T19:29:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-10T02:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/cost-of-war-31415\/"},"modified":"2008-04-09T19:29:20","modified_gmt":"2008-04-10T02:29:20","slug":"cost-of-war-31415","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/09\/cost-of-war-31415\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost of War #31415"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/specialreports\/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10873597&amp;CFID=1776010&amp;CFTOKEN=66295003\">The talent pool of the military officers is shrinking<\/a> :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The army is losing its best and brightest. West Point, the alma mater of American generals going back to Ulysses S. Grant, has seen a relentless rise in the number of officers who leave at the earliest opportunity. Whereas only about 35% of the West Point class of 2000 had quit after five years, for the class of 2001 the proportion rose to 46% and for the class of 2002 to 58%. Retention problems are particularly severe among captains and majors with 11-17 years&#8217; experience\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe potential future military leaders. The army currently has only half as many senior captains as it needs, and forecasts that it will suffer from a shortfall of 3,000 captains and majors (out of a cadre of 52,000) until at least 2013. The maximum age for recruits has been raised to 42, and fitness and educational standards have been lowered.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last week&#8217;s Economist has a whole section on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/specialreports\/displayStory.cfm?story_id=10873410\">possible changes in American foreign policy after November 2008<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The talent pool of the military officers is shrinking : The army is losing its best and brightest. West Point, the alma mater of American generals going back to Ulysses S. Grant, has seen a relentless rise in the number of officers who leave at the earliest opportunity. Whereas only about 35% of the West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[95,47,30,80],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intervention","category-neocons","category-politics","category-us-military"],"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\/4273","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}