{"id":59293,"date":"2026-05-11T07:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=59293"},"modified":"2026-05-11T07:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T15:27:30","slug":"joe-kent-a-national-security-strategy-for-our-republic-not-an-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/11\/joe-kent-a-national-security-strategy-for-our-republic-not-an-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Kent: &#8216;A National Security Strategy for Our Republic, Not an Empire&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L_eOTNhKbp0?si=C3lSUp3EEiyU8gY8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Joe Kent resigned from resigned as Director of the US National Counterterrorism Center in protest of Donald Trump&#8217;s war against Iran.\u00a0 Since then he has continued to speak out for ending the war.<\/p>\n<p>He gave this speech at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ronpaulinstitute.org\/\">Ron Paul Institute<\/a> Spring Conference in Lake Jackson, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Kent resigned from resigned as Director of the US National Counterterrorism Center in protest of Donald Trump&#8217;s war against Iran.\u00a0 Since then he has continued to speak out for ending the war. He gave this speech at the Ron Paul Institute Spring Conference in Lake Jackson, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"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":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_social_image_id":0,"_social_image_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[779],"class_list":["post-59293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"0","custom_donate_message":"","_social_image_id":false,"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59293","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59296,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59293\/revisions\/59296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59293"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=59293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}