{"id":1529,"date":"2009-10-22T12:34:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T16:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1529"},"modified":"2009-10-22T12:37:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T16:37:45","slug":"the-back-story-on-civil-military-relations-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1529\/the-back-story-on-civil-military-relations-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"The Back Story on Civil-Military Relations in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Feaver writes\u00a0a wonderful\u00a0post today for <a href=\"http:\/\/shadow.foreignpolicy.com\/posts\/2009\/10\/21\/obamas_military_problem_is_getting_worse\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Foreign Affairs<\/em><\/a> where he recounts the growing mistrust between the Obama White House and the military establishment. The problem is what to do about Afghanistan, how soon, and at what price. There is evidence that National Security Advisor Jim Jones was dispatched to tell war planners to tailor their advice to fit the President\u2019s political calculations. Feaver also hypothesizes about the involvement of the ever-present Bob Woodward in shaping the increasingly tense interactions between military commanders and their civilian bosses. This does not bode well for the troops on the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Feaver writes\u00a0a wonderful\u00a0post today for Foreign Affairs where he recounts the growing mistrust between the Obama White House and the military establishment. The problem is what to do about Afghanistan, how soon, and at what price. There is evidence that National Security Advisor Jim Jones was dispatched to tell war planners to tailor their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,344,342,343,44],"class_list":["post-1529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-jim-jones","tag-military","tag-national-security-advisor","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1529"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1533,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1529\/revisions\/1533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}