{"id":2625,"date":"2014-10-15T10:47:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/?p=2625"},"modified":"2023-05-04T00:16:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T04:16:41","slug":"despite-publics-war-weariness-u-s-defence-budget-may-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comw.org\/pda\/despite-publics-war-weariness-u-s-defence-budget-may-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Public\u2019s War Weariness, U.S. Defence Budget May Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pubPostType\"><a class=\"htmlLink\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/2014\/10\/despite-publics-war-weariness-u-s-defence-budget-may-rise\/\" target=\"_newtab\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>\u27aa HTML<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"pubPostType\"><span class=\"varPubAuthor\">by Jim Lobe<\/span>, <span class=\"varPubSource\"><em>Inter Press Service<\/em>,<\/span> <span class=\"varPubDate\">15 October 2014.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"pubPostType\"><span class=\"varPubSum\">&#8220;&#8230;even if the defense budget does indeed increase over the next few years, it should not be taken as a popular mandate for military activism, particularly for protracted military commitments of large numbers of ground troops, given the persistent public disillusionment with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.&#8221;\u00a0 <\/span>~ Carl Conetta<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even if the defence budget does indeed increase over the next few years, it should not be taken as a popular mandate for military activism, particularly for protracted military commitments of large numbers of ground troops given the persistent public disillusionment with the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to Conetta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10167552604075290_133638503385018":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Despite Public\u2019s War Weariness, U.S. Defence Budget May Rise &#8211; 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