{"id":2435,"date":"2011-03-09T20:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T20:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"0"},"modified":"2011-03-09T20:30:50","modified_gmt":"2011-03-09T20:30:50","slug":"send_more_jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/?p=2435","title":{"rendered":"Send More Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uncle Jimbo (in his grown-up persona as Jim Hanson) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2011\/mar\/8\/gates-versus-gates\/\" target=\"browser\">has a piece in the Washington Examiner<\/a> highlighting SecDef Gates&#8217; recent comments in which he both pushes for a technologically superior and deep defense structure and says that we should never use it again in Asia or Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Jim is defending the F35 program; I&#8217;ve been changing my attitude on that program from critical (we keep building overpriced, less-effective swiss-army-knife defense systems) toward positive (it sure seems to be working &#8211; except possibly for the VTOL variant &#8211; and we are going to need some better tech pretty darn soon).<\/p>\n<p>More on this in a bit &#8211; it&#8217;s probably worth trying to think it out in a post.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sec. Gates says &#8220;we need better tools for defense&#8221; and then &#8220;we&#8217;d better never use them&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcdanziger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}